Hi,
Well, yes and no. I guess my fundamental claim is that if
userland is able to generate requests faster than the driver can
fulfill them for an extended period of time then we've got a larger
problem than worrying about a particular request taking a long time
to satisfy. Indeed, I claim that as long as the driver cannot keep up
there will always be a pathological case where a particular request
is unreasonably delayed.
I'm not saying I have any idea what the correct solution is, but
I feel that tackling the request scheduling problem is less
meaningful if we haven't at least taken a whack at solving the
request overrun problem.
Cheers,
Bruce.
At 00:59 -0500 02/11/2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Surely you realize that the case where userland is generates requests
>faster than the driver can fulfill is a common case...
>
> Jeff
>
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