On 10/26/13 5:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/25/2013 9:57 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> allocator, but it doesn't have GRIO (Guaranteed Realtime I/O) like >> IRIX does. > > Wasn't it called "Guaranteed-Rate I/O"? Yeah, you are right. Brain fart. > And required the Origin ccNUMA > hardware including the HUB and XBow ASICs? IIRC this had no real-time > guarantee, but simply reserved X amount of bandwidth from the XBow > through the HUB to the processor, and finally the kernel and process. > Whether the attached disks could sustain the reserved bandwidth was > another matter. There were 2 versions, implemented in very different ways... Anyway, if Harry would "prefer designing and implementing" it for Linux, I'll just let him get started. :) -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
