Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:42:32 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: potential re change for 5.3? Message-ID: <51890.1093498952@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:33:55 MDT." <412D7643.9000700@samsco.org>
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In message <412D7643.9000700@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: >> Well, the problem here is that requests which cannot be dealt with >> due to resource shortages should be queued at the level where they >> require least resources. A request queued inside a driver holds >> far more resources than a request in the pure bio format at the >> entrance to the driver for instance. > >Not necessarily. It's not hard for a driver to keep a request queued on >the bioq and not consume and driver resources at all. Again it comes down to skill level of the driver writer, and no offense to present company, I'd rather just make sure it's very hard to be lazy in that context. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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