From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261598AbULFRph (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:45:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261592AbULFRpf (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:45:35 -0500 Received: from gate.corvil.net ([213.94.219.177]:56074 "EHLO corvil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261598AbULFRnZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:43:25 -0500 Message-ID: <41B499FE.5000603@draigBrady.com> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:42:22 +0000 From: P@draigBrady.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Love CC: Kyle Moffett , Jeff Sipek , Linux Kernel , Jens Axboe , Con Kolivas Subject: Re: [PATCH] Time sliced CFQ #2 References: <20041204104921.GC10449@suse.de> <20041204163948.GA20486@optonline.net> <20041205185844.GF6430@suse.de> <20041206002954.GA28205@optonline.net> <41B3BD0F.6010008@kolivas.org> <20041206022338.GA5472@optonline.net> <41B3C54B.1080803@kolivas.org> <1102310049.6052.123.camel@localhost> <62852042-4781-11D9-9115-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <1102351338.6052.126.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1102351338.6052.126.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Love wrote: >>The reason I proposed my ideas for tying the two values together is >>that I am >>concerned about breaking existing code. > > > Nothing should break. > > If apps don't explicitly set their i/o priority, then they get the > default. Not a big deal. > > This allows the default case to be the same as today. > > Robert Love For reference, this was discussed last year: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106847268508985&w=2 -- Pádraig Brady - http://www.pixelbeat.org --