Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Quick fix to enable ioprio

[Anders Aagaard <aagaande gmail com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> tobutaz gmail com wrote:
> > Hello,
> > the attached patch fixes a problem that prevented ioprio support from
> > being built on my system (an ubuntu edgy). The problem was that
> > _syscall2 only works in the kernel tree, but is not part of the linux
> > headers in /usr/include. So I had a look at how it was done in the
> > schedutils package instead.
> > Cheers,
> > Gabriel de Perthuis
>
>
> thanks have applied
>
> not sure how to check its working on Edgy though? (how can I tell what 
> io priority a preocess is set as?)


try something like this:

sed -n -e "/snip ionice.c/,/snip ionice.c/ p" 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt | sed "s/.\+snip 
ionice.\+//g" > ionice.c

then compile ionice.c, and run it with the argument -p <pid of process 
to check>