> That problem: the original elevator code did not schedule I/O particularly
> fairly under certain I/O usage patterns. So it got fixed.
No it got hacked up a bit.
> Now, I see people trying to introduce the concept of elapsed time into
> that fix, which smells strongly of hack. How will this hack be cobbled
Actually my brain says that elapsed time based scheduling is the right thing
to do. It certainly works for networks
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