[PATCH] libblock: Add read-ahead task

[Sebastian Huber]

On 02/06/12 04:30, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 1/06/12 4:51 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> On 06/01/2012 01:09 AM, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> On 31/05/12 7:23 PM, sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de wrote:
>>> [...]
> No questioning this from me. Good hardware and system design is needed 
> to get high performance. The current ATA driver is polled and this is 
> a blot on RTEMS. I hope the TCP stack work and the BSD frame work will 
> allow a SATA driver framework to come into RTEMS.

It will be very easy to use BSD stuff once the TCP stack is integrated.

[...]
> I see the read value of 0 disables read-ahead which is good. I assume 
> this means the read-ahead task is not created. Does this mean any 
> other value creates the task ?

Yes, a value of 0 disables the read-ahead (no change here).  This means 
also that the read-ahead task is not created and not accounted in the 
work space size estimate.  Any other value creates the task.  A value of 
0 is also the default (no change here).  Since the read-ahead control is 
now part of rtems_disk_device we can make the read-ahead configuration 
also per disk.

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