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Modular, switchable I/O schedulers

Modular, switchable I/O schedulers

Posted Sep 30, 2004 7:30 UTC (Thu) by axboe (subscriber, #904)
In reply to: Modular, switchable I/O schedulers by manpreet
Parent article: Modular, switchable I/O schedulers

That's not easily doable, since each queue can only have one io scheduler assigned and active. Additionally, the io scheduler requires exclusive access to the given queue. What you propose would require the old one be active from io completions and the new one working for submission and queueing.


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