One more question: is here any way to know is consumer busy or not?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Dec 10 15:59:15 UTC 2010


In message <1136849868.20101210183322 at serebryakov.spb.ru>, Lev Serebryakov writ
es:
>Hello, Freebsd-geom.
>
>  The  same  idea about pre-reading in case of providers with multiple
>  consumers   (BTW,   I   think  that terminology here is swapped):

The provider offers access to a disk(-like) device, which the consumer
can use.

>  looks  good  to  issue  pre-read only if target consumer is idle. Is
>  here  any  way  to  determine  that? 

you can look at the nstart and nend elements of the g_consumer structure
to tell how many outstanding requests there are on that consumer.

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