Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Hans Reiser
2005-09-21T21:16:55Z

Nikita Danilov wrote:

>Hans Reiser writes:
> > Horst von Brand wrote:
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> > >Funny that the "texbook algorithms" aren't used in real life. Wonder why...
> > >
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> > Try BSD. If the BSD book can be believed, they use"texbook algorithms".
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>The "textbook" one-way elevator (as indeed exemplified by FreeBSD's
>src/sys/kern/subr_disk.c:bioq_disksort()) has well-known weaknesses. For
>example,
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=FILE
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>can easily monopolize device queue and starve accesses to the blocks
>with low block numbers.
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> >
> > ;-)
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>Nikita.
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Yes, and one can compensate for them fairly cleanly. I can't say more
without the customer releasing the code first.