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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Josh Radel <jraidman-linux@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: elevator abstraction, anticipatory I/O backported to 2.4?
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:29:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809182921.GA28302@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040807000316.85612.qmail@web81706.mail.yahoo.com>

On Fri, Aug 06 2004, Josh Radel wrote:
> Are there any existing patches for a backport of the
> 2.6 elevator abstraction (or a specific patch for
> anticipatory I/O) to 2.4 kernels?

It would be hard to do. In fact it can't be done without hacking the
drivers to use it as well. So it might be doable just for fun, but not
as something maintainable.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-09 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-07  0:03 elevator abstraction, anticipatory I/O backported to 2.4? Josh Radel
2004-08-07  5:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-09 18:29 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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