Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Nov 26 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:42:34AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 2: The current elevator design is downright cruel to humans in
> > > the presence of heavy write traffic.
> > 
> > max_bomb_segments logic was established to help absolutely _nothing_ a
> > long time ago.
> > 
> > I agree that the current i/o scheduler has really bad interactive
> > performance -- at first sight your changes looks mostly like add-on
> > hacks though. Arjan's priority based scheme is more promising.
> > 
> 
> Based on pid priority or niceness?

None of the above yet. It isn't hard to add process I/O priority and
inherit that once the support is there in the i/o scheduler / block
layer, though.

-- 
Jens Axboe