I/O Scheduler Framework

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Sat Feb 28 04:20:15 PST 2009


First off, thanks for your work on this!

Alex Hornung wrote:
As previously stated this might be a limited approach, but nonetheless
it adds features without much overhead or complication.
What I would like to hear is suggestions on what to do; do we want
stackable (hierarchical) policies? if so, is the proposed approach good
enough? if not, what other possibilities are there? what use cases are
not covered by the suggested approach but are solved in other
possibilites/approaches?
I think that we don't understand the whole matter yet.  Probably it is too 
early to come up with a definitive design, so I suggest only implementing 
the framework for one scheduler per disk and implementing schedulers for 
this framework.  After a while we might understand requirements and 
scheduler design better and then can reason about how a possible re-design 
for stackable/interacting schedulers might look like.

cheers
  simon
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