Re: Anticipatory disk scheduling - soc 2008

[Cristi Magherusan <cristi.magherusan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 00:04 -0400, Nirmal Thacker wrote:

> The current scheduler lies in the src/sys/dev/disk/nata/ata-queue.c
> file . Are there any more related files? I did go through the
> dev/disk/nata code and I didn't seem to find other related pieces of
> code
> 
> This seems like a simple elevator scheduler . Would you like the
> anticipatory disk scheduler to reside here as well?
IMHO, if the algorithm is complex enough, you could split it in its own file(s).

> Could there be some similar documentation with FreeBSD - what kind of
> scheduler does FreeBSD implement? Would a cross reference code to
> FreeBSD be available? (something like LXR)

LXR-based: http://fxr.watson.org
OpenGrok: http://moduli.net/grok/xref/freebsd/

For Dragonfly you can also use fxr.watson.org or
http://opengrok.creo.hu/dragonfly/ , if you prefer OpenGrok.

Regards,
Cristi

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Cristi Magherusan,
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Centrul de Comunicatii "Pusztai Kalman"
Tel. 0264/401247  http://cc.utcluj.ro

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