GRIO

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Dec 30 01:17:26 PST 2003


:Will the DF kernel accommodate applications that require GRIO? Will the 
:new DF I/O device model allow for guaranteed rates?

    Real rate guarentees are virtually impossible to do with a general purpose
    operating system.  It's possible to get fairly close... e.g. SGI did a
    reasonable job in IRIX, but there is no particular tie-in between the
    DFly algorithms and an ability to do rate guarentees.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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