Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:01:36 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: bogosity in blkelvset_ioctl |
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> include/linux/elevator.h says max_bomb_segments defaults to zero. > > drivers/block/elevator.c (blkelvset_ioctl) says it can't be zero.
Heh, the new elevator is like 3 months (?) old...
And it's _already_ suffering from bitrot?!
> One of them must be wrong.
They're probably _both_ wrong. With all the threads on linux-kernel about people getting poor performance with the magic numbers in the elevator set wrong, I'm getting the impression that that code really needs to be capable of auto-tuning itself at run time.
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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