Re: Need information on elevator_dispatch_fn

2007-10-31 Thread Aaron Carroll
Philipp Gruber wrote: > So I need to 'reactivate' the whole dispatching process again. The only > way to to this is probably a timer, but I couldn't get this working > since I don't understand what calls dispatch_fn. Hi Philipp, Take a look how the AS and CFQ schedulers implement this. In fact,

Re: Need information on elevator_dispatch_fn

2007-10-31 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Oct 31 2007, Philipp Gruber wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm just working on an I/O-scheduler that implements some QoS > functionality. > > Now I get some weird problems and need to know what triggers my > elevator_dispatch_fn, and how the return value of it is handled. > For now, I found