Re: setting task->ioprio from a kernel thread

2005-07-29 Thread Jens Axboe
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

setting task->ioprio from a kernel thread

2005-07-25 Thread Zach Brown
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 w