From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 1 17:34:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E574C37B401; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from odysseus.silby.com (d120.as29.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.73.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7166943F3F; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from odysseus.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by odysseus.silby.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h221VNFT000439; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:31:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by odysseus.silby.com (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) with ESMTP id h1SIvRUO001292; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:57:28 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: odysseus.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:57:26 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Paul Robinson Cc: David Schultz , hiten@unixdaemons.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Disk scheduling in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030228125613.A711@odysseus.silby.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Paul Robinson wrote: > Well, I'm just a hanger-on without a commit bit, so I'll work on making it > production ready in the next few weeks, post up a patch and if somebody > wants to commit it, great. At the moment it's all based on 4.3-RELEASE and > isn't really production ready. It does look worth doing though. Make an easy to run testbench which should show the performance improvements / disadvantages of a new IO scheduler first; that's really the first step. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message