From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: nate.diller@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:39:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060804133938.GX20624@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060803224519.dd9bf38e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:20:32 +0200
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Nate Diller wrote:
> > > the Elevator iosched would prefer to be unconditionally notified of a
> > > merge, but the current API calls only one 'merge' notifier
> > > (elv_merge_requests or elv_merged_requests), even if both front and
> > > back merges happened.
> > >
> > > elv_extended_request satisfies this requirement in conjunction with
> > > elv_merge_requests.
> >
> > Ok, I suppose. But please rebase patches against the 'block' git branch,
> > there are extensive changes in this area.
> >
>
> argh, the great (but partial ;)) renaming bites again.
>
> A suitable patch to merge against is
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/git-block.patch
not so much the renaming (that's easy enough), but the elevator core
parts changed in some areas.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-04 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-04 2:11 [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API Nate Diller
2006-08-04 5:20 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-04 5:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 13:39 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-08-07 23:14 ` Nate Diller
2006-08-07 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
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