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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in elevator/cfq regarding start_time?
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:12:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091006071202.GC5216@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e5e476b0910051326g559bf135ma3cf82219ade497@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 05 2009, Corrado Zoccolo wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> Good spotting! So we can either add the same copy in cfq, or we can just
> >> move the ->start_time check and assignment in attempt_merge() to post
> >> the elv_merge_requests() call. I think the latter would work fine, but
> >> I'll check and fix tomorrow.
> >
> > I think there is still something buggy regarding those timestamps.
> False alarm. I just found that the list was not yet filled at that
> place in the code.

OK, it did look a bit puzzling. FWIW, this is what I committed
yesterday:

http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=30996f40bffe73f05abb92a4cec254befa8cecf7

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-04 20:54 bug in elevator/cfq regarding start_time? Corrado Zoccolo
2009-10-04 20:59 ` Jens Axboe
2009-10-05 15:08   ` Corrado Zoccolo
2009-10-05 20:26     ` Corrado Zoccolo
2009-10-06  7:12       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-10-06  8:43         ` Corrado Zoccolo
2009-10-06  8:54           ` Jens Axboe

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