Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API

[Nate Diller]

On 8/4/06, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:20:32 +0200
> > Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Nate Diller wrote:
> > > > the Elevator iosched would prefer to be unconditionally notified of a
> > > > merge, but the current API calls only one 'merge' notifier
> > > > (elv_merge_requests or elv_merged_requests), even if both front and
> > > > back merges happened.
> > > >
> > > > elv_extended_request satisfies this requirement in conjunction with
> > > > elv_merge_requests.
> > >
> > > Ok, I suppose. But please rebase patches against the 'block' git branch,
> > > there are extensive changes in this area.
> > >
> >
> > argh, the great (but partial ;)) renaming bites again.
> >
> > A suitable patch to merge against is
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/git-block.patch
>
> not so much the renaming (that's easy enough), but the elevator core
> parts changed in some areas.

would it be appropriate to submit against 2.6.18-rc3-mm2?  I hope to
have a much-cleaned-up version tomorrow

thanks

NATE
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