(reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

>> That problem: the original elevator code did not schedule I/O particularly
>> fairly under certain I/O usage patterns. So it got fixed.
>
>No it got hacked up a bit.

Why do you say it's not been fixed? Can you still reproduce hangs long as
a write(2) can write? I certainly can't.

>Actually my brain says that elapsed time based scheduling is the right thing
>to do. It certainly works for networks

Going in function of time it's a few liner patch with respect to the
current scheduler.

Andrea


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