Re: elevator abstraction, anticipatory I/O backported to 2.4?

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 13:38:31 EST


On Fri, Aug 06 2004, Josh Radel wrote:
> Are there any existing patches for a backport of the
> 2.6 elevator abstraction (or a specific patch for
> anticipatory I/O) to 2.4 kernels?

It would be hard to do. In fact it can't be done without hacking the
drivers to use it as well. So it might be doable just for fun, but not
as something maintainable.

--
Jens Axboe

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