From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] as-iosched: fix write batch start point
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:15:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205101548.GB4969@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071205101434.GE1114@wotan.suse.de>
On Wed, Dec 05 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:07:07PM +1100, Aaron Carroll wrote:
> > New write batches currently start from where the last one completed.
> > We have no idea where the head is after switching batches, so this
> > makes little sense. Instead, start the next batch from the request
> > with the earliest deadline in the hope that we avoid a deadline
> > expiry later on.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
>
> I think this seems reasonable. What's deadline doing in this case?
> They should probably be kept in synch where possible...
Aaron sent a similar patch for deadline a while ago, so this just
matches them up again. I acked that patch, it makes a lot of sense to
me.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-05 10:07 [PATCH] as-iosched: fix write batch start point Aaron Carroll
2007-12-05 10:14 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-05 10:15 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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