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From: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian <vrajesh@umich.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] prio_tree generalization
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:36:02 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041217153602.D31842@almesberger.net> (raw)

This patch set for 2.6.10-rc3-bk10 (*) generalizes the prio_tree
code such that other subsystems than just VMA can use it.

(*) I'm not sure which tree is the most useful base for this.
    Should I use 2.6.10-rc3-mm* instead of -bk* ? (Or is it
    already too late for 2.6.10 anyway ?)

While there are currently no other in-tree users than VMA,
the prio_tree algorithm will be useful for detecting overlapping
disk IO requests, which is a prerequisite for efficient handling
of barriers, which - besides being a good idea in general - in
turn is a prerequisite for useful disk IO priorities.

The three patches that follow are incremental and must be applied
in the order specified.

- Werner

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17 18:36 Werner Almesberger [this message]
2004-12-17 18:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] prio_tree: roll call to prio_tree_first into prio_tree_next Werner Almesberger
2004-12-17 18:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] prio_tree: generalization Werner Almesberger
2004-12-17 18:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] prio_tree: move general code from mm/ to lib/ Werner Almesberger
2004-12-17 23:10   ` David Howells
2004-12-17 23:16     ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-17 19:52 ` [PATCH 0/3] prio_tree generalization Andrew Morton

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