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DateMon, 5 Jan 1998 15:46:31 +0100 (MEZ)
FromRichard Guenther <>
SubjectRe: Badblocks impact on overall performance
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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