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

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Anders Aagaard wrote:
> 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>

will give it a go

surely there must be something in /proc that records the ioprio info for 
a process?

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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