Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:47:32 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: ll_rw_blk.c fails to merge requests. Help! |
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On Thu, Aug 24 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Heh, but it's not that simple. The requests that are currently on > > the pending list, are not necessarily added to the same freelist. So > > we have to scan the pending list, and look at each request individually. > > Why not just have a pending list for each free list, no?
Thinking a bit more about it, we really don't need the two lists to be able to use list_splice. Write batching need only focus on the write freelist since reads also fall back to stealing requsts from that list.
New patch coming up.
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