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Date:      28 Jan 2002 12:01:25 +0000
From:      Rolf Neugebauer <neugebar@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: priority disk scheduling?
Message-ID:  <ysq3d0qofai.fsf@therese.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3C51C184.1020706@isi.edu>
References:  <3C51C184.1020706@isi.edu>

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Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> does anyone know if a simple priority disk scheduler exists for a
> recent (4.X) FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy, basically the POSIX
> rtprio equivalent for disks.
> 
> The Eclipse people (at Bell) have something like that, but it's based
> on an older kernel, and I'd rather use something more recent before
> looking into porting their stuff.

You might want to try anticipatory scheduling from Rice. It is for
4.3-RELEASE and IIRC includes some proportional share
algorithms. More info and source code available for non-commercial use:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/r/antsched/

Rolf

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