On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 02:18:52PM +0000, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 19/11/2010 12:42, Eric Masson wrote: > > Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> writes: > > > > Hello, > > > >> Google suggests that the work was a GSoC project in 2005 on a pluggable > >> disk scheduler. > > It seems that something similar has found its way in DFlyBSD, dsched. > And indeed to FreeBSD, man gsched. Added sometime round April > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/geom/sched/README?view=log
Apart from the other comments on gsched, disk I/O scheduling is a totally different animal than {thread,process,task} scheduling, even when it comes to I/O-bound tasks. -- Clifton P.S. Trimmed -current off the CC line; crossing 3 lists seems rather superfluous. -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"