Re: CSCAN I/O scheduler for 2.6.10 kernel

From: Matt Heler
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:26:34 EST


Any chance you can diff this against the latest 2.6 kernel ? 2.6.10 is abit
old.

Thanks

On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:58 pm, Vishal Patil wrote:
> Maintain two queues which will be sorted in ascending order using Red
> Black Trees. When a disk request arrives and if the block number it
> refers to is greater than the block number of the current request
> being served add (merge) it to the first sorted queue or else add
> (merge) it to the second sorted queue. Keep on servicing the requests
> from the first request queue until it is empty after which switch over
> to the second queue and now reverse the roles of the two queues.
> Simple and Sweet. Many thanks for the awesome block I/O layer in the
> 2.6 kernel.
>
> - Vishal
>
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