New disk schedulers available for FreeBSD

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 18:45:15 PST 2009


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at icir.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> Fabio Checconi and myself have developed a GEOM-based disk scheduler
> for FreeBSD. The scheduler is made of a GEOM kernel module, the
> corresponding userland claas library, and other loadable kernel
> modules that implement the actual scheduling algorithm.
>
> At the URL below you can find a tarball with full sources and
> also a set of pre-built modules/libraries for RELENG_7, to ease testing.
>
>    http://feanor.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/io_sched/fc_sched.tar.gz
>
> Below you can find the README file that comes with the distribution.
>
> I would encourage people to try it and submit feedback, because the
> initial results are extremely interesting. While I just tried the
> code under RELENG_7/i386, it should build and work on all versions
> that have GEOM (but read below).

Hi Luigi!
    Is this changeset already available in CURRENT?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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