On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:28:47 +0200, Benno Senoner <sbenno@gardena.net>
said:
> do you think that a per-block-device IO scheduling will cure the
> 70-150ms stall of audio playing applications during heavy disk I/O ?
If you mean playback from disk, then it depends on whether or not the
data you are playing is on the same disk as the writes. If so, then
per-device queuing by itself won't make the problem go away, you still
need read/write conflict resolution.
> Just for curiousity , will it take much time to implement the
> per-device scheduling on Linux ?
It depends on who is doing it. :)
--Stephen
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