Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:28:50 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Prioritised disk requests Message-ID: <199511270628.GAA00550@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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Has anyone thought of a mechanism (similar to stuff I've seen on Masscomp
machines) where one could indicate that a particular stream of disk I/O had a
higher priority than normal? Masscomp used to have a B_URGENT flag for these
blocks in the buffer cache (for semi-realtime I/O when acquiring or
transmitting data). CD burners could do with this, or people trying to keep
tapes streaming on backups.
Stephen
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