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SubjectRe: (reiserfs) Re: An elevator algorithm (patch)
On Tue, Sep 19 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > 7[3] 8[2] 9[1] 10[0] 3[3] 4[2] 5[1] 6[0] 1[3] 2[2]
> p
> With point `p' I mean the request after last barrier in the queue.

Ah, I suspected we were talking past each other.

> Then when we try to insert 99 it goes here:
>
> 100[0] 102[3] 103[3] 104[3] 99[3]
> p
>
> So we have two low peaks in the not starving queue and we should move the p
> to the latest on the right.

Ok good, I've read Peter's patch now. Looks good, I've put it in my
tree as well and will do some testing.

> Also we should make different cases in function of what p->prev is
> (barrier/head/real_head/normalreq).
>
> I don't think it's worthwhile (even with the current algorithm where it's easy
> to account for p).

I suspect you are right, it's marginal.

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