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From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:36:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508191336.36832.stefan@loplof.de> (raw)

Dave Hansen wrote:

> In reality, that probably means a statically compiled daemon that
> mlock()s itself, and any structures that it will need.  It _might_ even
> need to keep an open file descriptor on the "frozen" file.  Because, in
> theory, that file could be written out to the sysfs backing store.

with such a hassle to make the parking API available, assure that the head 
parking daemon is not swapped out, can access the filedescriptor, has a 
priority high enough to start immediatly when needed, wouldn't that qualify 
for running in kernel space?

Stefan

             reply	other threads:[~2005-08-19 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-19 11:36 Stefan Rompf [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-16 15:25 HDAPS, Need to park the head for real Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-16 20:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-16 23:15   ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-16 23:29     ` [Hdaps-devel] " Yani Ioannou
2005-08-17  5:53     ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-17  6:23       ` [Hdaps-devel] " Jon Escombe
2005-08-18 20:49   ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-18 21:15     ` Adam Goode
2005-08-18 21:30       ` [Hdaps-devel] " Dave Hansen
2005-08-18 21:38       ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-19  6:36         ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-19 10:05           ` [Hdaps-devel] " Jon Escombe
2005-08-19 10:23             ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-19 12:41               ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-08-24 21:44   ` Jon Escombe
2005-08-25 10:57     ` Alan Cox
2005-08-25 18:14       ` Jon Escombe
2005-08-26  6:49         ` Jens Axboe

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