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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] block: mq-deadline: Track the dispatch position
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 01:33:27PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Track the position (sector_t) of the most recently dispatched request
> instead of tracking a pointer to the next request to dispatch. This
> patch simplifies the code for inserting and removing a request from the
> red-black tree.

Can you explain what the simplification is?  As of this patch the
code looks more complicated to me..