Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:36:36 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.32-pre4/SMP still doesn't boot on Compaq Proliant 1600 |
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Chris Evans wrote:
> > Anyway, as a heads-up: 2.3.32 has the new block device queueing code, > > courtesy of Eric Youngdale (and huge thanks to Alan Cox for walking > > it over and making sure it works and is clean). > > What does it buy us?
RTFPatch, boy :)
Per-device io request queues, rather than a single one, means that less searching is involved in finding/sorting io requests. I suspect that it also means that the single io_request_lock might be on the way out, too.
Matthew.
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