Re: request->ioprio

[Rusty Russell]

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 17:06:03 Fernando Luis VÃzquez Cao wrote:
> Besides, I guess that accessing the io context information (such as
> ioprio) of a request through elevator-specific private structures is not
> something we want virtio_blk (or future users) to do.

The only semantic I assumed was "higher is better".  The server (ie. host) can 
really only use the information to schedule between I/Os for that particular 
guest anyway.

But it sounds like I should be passing "0" in there unconditionally until the 
kernel semantics are sorted out and I can do something more intelligent?  I 
haven't checked, but I assume that's actually what's happening at the moment 
(the field is zero)?

Rusty.
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