On Mon, Jul 25 2005, Zach Brown wrote: > > In OCFS2 there is currently an in-kernel heartbeat thread that really > wants to communicate liveness to other nodes as quickly as possible by > writing to a block device. Setting aside the specific wisdom of a > kernel heartbeat thread for a bit, has it been considered that kernel > threads might want to set their io priority with the task->ioprio bits? > Neither set_task_ioprio() nor sys_ioprio_set() seem to be accessible > to modules and open-coding it is clearly a bad idea. Would the universe > be opposed to a _GPL() export of, say, the sys_() interface?
I guess the sys_get/set export would be ok, although it seems a little nasty to export the actual syscalls. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
