On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:08:13AM -0500, Pete Wyckoff wrote: > If this aspect really bothers you, perhaps you could sort the > methods by their "fast"-ness, and service the active fds > preferentially from those first, returning immediately without > calling into the slow method(s). The caller will end up back in > BMI_test* again soon, then you can call into the slow method if > there's nothing better to do. Always have to worry about starvation > in such cases, though.
you could weight by both fastness and age and sort on that. Now you have two problems... ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF Argonne National Lab, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-developers mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers
