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Re: xbd.c and bufq questions



On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:40:54AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > Why the xbd.c driver uses FCFS for the buffer queue between
> > all virtual disks?
> 
> isn't a comment in xbdinit enough?
> 
> > Another question, why the xbd driver cannot use the DIOCSSTRATEGY
> > to change the strategy?
> 
> it isn't straightforward as the queue is shared among xbd instances.

But I don't see anything which would prevent from doing it. We just need
to keep a list of all xbd device to be able to change sc_bufq for all of
them.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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