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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:29:21 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Josh Radel <jraidman-linux@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: elevator abstraction, anticipatory I/O backported to 2.4?
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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