[Pvfs2-developers] fix BMI multiplexing of multiple methods

[Robert Latham]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:08:13AM -0500, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
> If this aspect really bothers you, perhaps you could sort the
> methods by their "fast"-ness, and service the active fds
> preferentially from those first, returning immediately without
> calling into the slow method(s).  The caller will end up back in
> BMI_test* again soon, then you can call into the slow method if
> there's nothing better to do.  Always have to worry about starvation
> in such cases, though.

you could weight by both fastness and age and sort on that.  Now you
have two problems... 

==rob

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Rob Latham
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