Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:27:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>We simply keep track of how old the oldest request >in the queue is, and when that request is getting >too old (say 1/2 second), we /stop/ all the others
Going in function of time is obviously wrong. A blockdevice can write 1 request every two seconds or 1 request every msecond. You can't assume anything in function of time _unless_ you have per harddisk timing informations into the kernel.
Andrea
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