Re: [RESEND][RFC] BFQ I/O Scheduler

[Aaron Carroll]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> > I was thinking about that too. Generally I've been opposed to doing
> > scheduling decisions on anything but time, since that is always
> > relevant. When to hand out slices and to what process, that algorithm is
> > really basic in CFQ and could do with an improvement.
> >   
>
> Jumping in at random, does "process" here mean task or mms_struct?  If 
> the former, doesn't that mean that a 100-thread process can starve out a 
> single-threaded process?

task_struct.  It would also be nice to do per-user I/O scheduling..

-- Aaron
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