In message <20100322233607.GB1767_at_garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek write s: >A class is suppose to interact with other classes only via GEOM, so I >think it should be safe to choose g_up/g_down threads for each class >individually, for example: > > /dev/ad0s1a (DEV) > | > g_up_0 + g_down_0 > | > ad0s1a (BSD) > | > g_up_1 + g_down_1 > | > ad0s1 (MBR) > | > g_up_2 + g_down_2 > | > ad0 (DISK) Uhm, that way you get _more_ context switches than today, today g_down will typically push the requests all the way down through the stack without a context switch. (Similar for g_up) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Mar 23 2010 - 07:56:27 UTC
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