Re: The XFS real-time subvolume in Linux

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> That is basically true, yes.  There is a non-free GRIOV2 product in
> use with CXFS, but for your purposes, I think it is safe to say that
> there is no standalone GRIO equivalent on Linux.

It's not. In fact it's a standard feature now.

The CFQ2 IO scheduler has IO priorities settable with ionice, including
a RT class with 8 priorities.

It's not available in SLES9 though, only in newer kernels (2.6.13+)
and SUSE releases (like SL10.0) 

-Andi