Subject: Re: I/O priorities
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/20/2002 15:58:20
> > >
> > > seconds sound cool. but does it mean per-process queues???
> >
> > I don't think so.  Write ordering should be preserved, but if a process
> > tries to schedule a write when no buffers are available to it (but
> > would be available to other processes) then it would block.  A process
> > would need keep track of how many buffers it's using for I/O so that

it means counting not-yet-written buffers or all buffers per process?

both is quite simple to implement

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