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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, seelam@cs.utep.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][RESEND] Default iosched fixes (was: Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15?)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:40:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060121114028.GQ13429@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0601201524x26225a77k94a1eb95bc601883@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 20 2006, Nate Diller wrote:
> Jens has decided that allowing the default scheduler to be a module is
> a bug, and should not be allowed under kconfig.  However, I find that
> scenario useful for debugging, and wish for the kernel to be able to
> handle this situation without OOPSing, if I enable such an option in
> the .config directly.  This patch dynamically checks for the presence
> of the compiled-in default, and falls back to no-op, emitting a
> suitable error message, when the default is not available
> 
> Tested for a range of boot options on 2.6.16-rc1-mm2.

NAK, if you find it useful for testing, keep this patch along with the
patch that enables you to config the kernel that way.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-21 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-20  0:04 [PATCH] Default iosched fixes (was: Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15?) Nate Diller
2006-01-20  8:11 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 23:17   ` [PATCH 1/2][RESEND] " Nate Diller
2006-01-20 23:24     ` [PATCH 2/2][RESEND] " Nate Diller
2006-01-21 11:40       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-21 11:48     ` [PATCH 1/2][RESEND] " Jens Axboe
2006-01-23 19:50       ` Nate Diller
2006-01-23 21:02         ` Jens Axboe

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