On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:20:34AM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> >For the cello-based io controller we are developing we need to assign
> >certain queue-reordering functions to each class. For instance, the
> >cello paper defines a real-time reordeding, deadline reordering and
> >best-effort reordering. But the rcfs interface only allows to set the
> >limit and guarantee for a class, there is no [obvious] way to set a
> >different parameter. Are there any plans to add this capability to
> >rcfs?
> 
> the share file, present in every class, was to contain the common set of
> parameters of interest to all controllers. Hence this file is not 
> expected to be extensible to include the per-class params.
> 
> You can use the /rcfs/taskclass/config interface to set per-controller 
> parameters. But this will apply to all the classes, not just one.

I know. So, are there any plans to add "uncommon" per class
configuration to CKRM/RCFS? Is there a strong opposition against
adding them?

> >As I was trying to work around this problem, I attempted to use the
> >class name to infer what the classified function should be (three
> >classes is good enough of a test, for starters) - but I have
> >discovered that the class name contains the mount point and the class
> >type: /rcfs/taskclass/foo/bar, when I was really expecting only the 
> >significant part of the path "foo/bar", since the mountpoint can be
> >anywhere and the class type can be obtained by other means. Is this
> >deliberate, or it just happened and nobody had a reason to change it?
> 
> The reason for using a fully qualified path serves to uniquely identify 
> a class. Admittedly, the mount point isn't necessary, but the classtype is.
> 
> Why is the presence of a common prefix (the mount point) a problem for 
> the classification function you're writing ?

It is not a problem, it just looks inelegant. Stripping one or two path
elements make no difference...

florin

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