Messages in this thread | | | From | Aaron Carroll <> | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:36:23 +1100 | Subject | Re: Need information on elevator_dispatch_fn |
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Philipp Gruber wrote: > So I need to 'reactivate' the whole dispatching process again. The only > way to to this is probably a timer, but I couldn't get this working > since I don't understand what calls dispatch_fn.
Hi Philipp,
Take a look how the AS and CFQ schedulers implement this. In fact, the CFQ scheduler implements policy similar to what you described. as_work_handler() in block/as-iosched.c might be a good starting point.
-- Aaron
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