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SubjectRe: elevator code
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:

>function that is called from the drivers as needed. For smart devices
>with very intelligent firmware you simply do not call it (assuming you
>have decently sized kiovec requests, with the current bh approach some
>premerging is probably always needed)

I see. In linux 2.4.x to avoid the sorting we can simply use the noop
elevator. It will still merge requests at max for the reason you pointed
out.

Andrea


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