From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] block: Add test-iosched scheduler Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:46:22 +0200 Message-ID: <5017FDCE.5030700@kernel.dk> References: <1343744710-31700-2-git-send-email-merez@codeaurora.org> <09c3a301ad7ca4fa396c4d00615312c1.squirrel@www.codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <09c3a301ad7ca4fa396c4d00615312c1.squirrel@www.codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: merez@codeaurora.org Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, DOCUMENTATION , open list List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org On 07/31/2012 04:36 PM, merez@codeaurora.org wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Do you have comments on this patch? > Can we push it to kernel 3.6 version? I have questions - what is this good for? In other words, explain to me why this is useful code. And in particular why this cannot be done from userspace with bsg and block tracing? IOW, I'm dubious as to whether a new _io scheduler_ is the correct solution to the problem you have at hand. -- Jens Axboe