Re: (reiserfs) Re: An elevator algorithm

From: Hans Reiser (hans@reiser.to)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 13:52:00 EST


Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:23:26PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > I think Xuan's algorithm is good, so I want to add to it.:-)
> >
> > Ragnar, I don't understand your objection to it. It is always the
> > case that if you specify real
> > time constraints that are impossible then they aren't met.
>
> My objection was that in the case where it is impossible to serve
> requests within the maximum latency, it would stop ordering the
> requests.
>
> With a FIFO queue, the throuput will be lower, and that will also
> give longer latency.
>
> --
> Ragnar
Ok, reasonable objection.:)

Hans
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