Re: [PATCH] noop-iosched: reimplementation

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Nov 10 2005, Tejun Heo wrote:
> The original implementation directly used dispatch queue.  As new
> generic dispatch queue imposes stricter rules over ioscheds and
> dispatch queue usage, this direct use becomes somewhat problematic.
> This patch reimplements noop-iosched such that it complies to generic
> iosched model better.  Request merging with q->last_merge and
> rq->queuelist.prev/next work again now.

Yep this looks like what I had in mind as well, I'll apply it.

> Jens, this one also received several hours of testing which involves a
> lot of request merging, but it might still be a better idea to wait
> for the next release.  Oh... Are we still in the merging window for
> 2.6.15?  If so, this one can go in, I guess.

I guess we can sneak this one in after the window even, if we
characterize it as a regression fix as compared to 2.6.14 :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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