Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:46:31 +0100 (MEZ) | From | Richard Guenther <> | Subject | Re: Badblocks impact on overall performance |
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On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> 2. The queue fills and blocks other drivers up because Linus still > hasnt included the patch that was developed to keep a per > device queue (SCSI doesnt have this problem as it empties the > request queues onto its own queues), but stuff like IDE and > especially slower devices - eg floppies are dire for it. > > (and yes Linus can we please have the multiple queues patch in > 2.2 pending the new io_request stuff in 2.3...) > > Alan
Seems to be time for struct kdev_t... (anyone started on this task? I looked at the affected places and have one in mind (for block devices, don't really know what to do with the character ones).
Richard.
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