Geom-based Disk Schedulers

by fabio for The FreeBSD Project

This project aims at introducing a framework for pluggable disk schedulers in GEOM, available to the user as a GEOM class, with scheduling algorithms implemented in external modules. We have already implemented a prototype for the framework and we already have some example schedulers. The ultimate goals of this project will be to produce a stable scheduling framework and at least a general purpose disk scheduling plugin, suitable for use under desktop workloads.