| Date | Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:13:31 -0500 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: elevator algorithm bug in ll_rw_blk.c |
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According to Alan Cox: > Chip: > > But that's a *one-way* elevator. Ideal elevators are two-way, aren't they? > > If you go for the shortest movement alone you starve the edges of the disks.
I said "two-way", not "shortest movement".
> If you watch a real elevator you'll see they too use the elevator algorithm
They stop for passengers going up _or_ down. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> "There -- we made them swerve slightly!" //MST3K
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