[PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced design
authorJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:55:12 +0000 (10:55 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:33:29 +0000 (14:33 -0700)
commit22e2c507c301c3dbbcf91b4948b88f78842ee6c9
tree9a97c91d1362e69703aa286021daffb8a5456f4c
parent020f46a39eb7b99a575b9f4d105fce2b142acdf1
[PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced design

This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq
v3).  It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent
aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes.  It
supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set
directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls.  The latter closely mimic
set/getpriority.

This import is based on my latest from -mm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
26 files changed:
arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S
arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S
drivers/block/as-iosched.c
drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c
drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c
drivers/block/elevator.c
drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
fs/Makefile
fs/ioprio.c [new file with mode: 0644]
fs/reiserfs/journal.c
include/asm-i386/unistd.h
include/asm-ia64/unistd.h
include/asm-ppc/unistd.h
include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
include/linux/bio.h
include/linux/blkdev.h
include/linux/elevator.h
include/linux/fs.h
include/linux/init_task.h
include/linux/ioprio.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/sched.h
include/linux/writeback.h
kernel/exit.c
kernel/fork.c
kernel/sched.c