Re: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Mar 25 2010 - 10:45:34 EST


On Wed, Mar 24 2010, Divyesh Shah wrote:
> even if they are found to be co-operating.
>
> The prio_trees do not have any IDLE cfqqs on them. cfq_close_cooperator()
> is called from cfq_select_queue() and cfq_completed_request(). The latter
> ensures that the close cooperator code does not get invoked if the current
> cfqq is of class IDLE but the former doesn't seem to have any such checks.
> So an IDLE cfqq may get merged with a BE cfqq from the same group which
> should be avoided.

Thanks, applied.

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Jens Axboe

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