Re: patch: blk-12

2000-12-09 Thread Andrew Morton
Jens Axboe wrote: > > o Batch freeing of requests. Stock kernels have very bad behaviour > under I/O load (load here meaning that the request list is empty, > doesn't require much effort...), because as soon as a request is > completed and put back on the freelist, a read/write will grab it

patch: blk-12

2000-12-09 Thread Jens Axboe
Hi, I've released what will probably be the last blk-xx patch for 2.4, at least as far as features go. In fact, blk-12 is just minor tweaks and fixes over the previous version. Highlight of changes: o Merge elevator merge and insertion scan. This saves an entire linear queue scan when we can't