Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [RFC] Revised CKRM release

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 08:18:26PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:

> >It sounds to me the classification engine can be moved to userspace? 
> >
> >Such "classification" sounds a better suited to be done there.
> 
> I suppose it could. However, one of our design objectives was to 
> support multi-threaded server apps where each thread (task) changes 
> its class fairly rapidly (say every time it starts doing work on 
> behalf of a more/less important transaction). Doing a transition to 
> userspace and back may be too costly for such a scenario.

But who sets the priority of the tasks is userspace anyway, isnt? AFAICS its
userspace who knows which transaction is more/less important. 

> There might also be some concerns with keeping the reclassify 
> operation atomic wrt deletion of the target class...but we haven't 
> thought this through for userspace classification.

How often is a reclassify operation done?

> >Note: I haven't read the code yet.
> >
> 
> Why just read when you can test as well :-) We just released a testing 
> tarball at http://ckrm.sf.net.. any inputs, bugs will be most welcome !
> 
> Looking forward to more inputs,

Yeah, I'm just nitpicking from the outside and haven't contributed 
to anything, so...