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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:44:44 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver"
	clarification
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On Sat, Feb 27 2010, Corrado Zoccolo wrote:
> Counters for requests "in flight" and "in driver" are used asymmetrically
> in cfq_may_dispatch, and have slightly different meaning.
> We split the rq_in_flight counter (was sync_flight) to count both sync
> and async requests, in order to use this one, which is more accurate in
> some corner cases.
> The rq_in_driver counter is coalesced, since individual sync/async counts
> are not used any more.

Thanks, applied.

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Jens Axboe