Re: [PATCH] 2.4.20-rmap15a

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:38:40AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> OK, do you have a better idea on how to implement this thing ?

Hello !

Please excuse my ignorance of the internals, but from a neutral view, I think
that an efficient design could be like this :
  - not one, but two elevators, one for read requests, one for write requests.
  - may be one couple of these elevators for each physical device to ease
    parallelism, but I'm not sure.
  - we would process one of the request queues (either reads or writes), and
    after a user-settable amount of requests processed, we would switch to the
    other one if it contains pending requests. For each request processed, we
    would take a look at the other queue, to see if a request for a very close
    location exists, in which case we would also switch.

This would bring the advantage of the latency/throughput balance being
completely user-settable.

Please excuse me if it's impossible in the current design or if it's already
done this way and fails. I just wanted to add my 2 euro-cents here.

Comments ?

Cheers,
Willy