Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:59:22 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: elevator code |
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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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