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SubjectRe: An elevator algorithm (patch)
On 18 Sep 2000, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
>
> > > The only disadvantage I can see is that the new patch doesn't handle
> > > consecutive insertions in O(1) time, but then again, the pre-latency
> >
> > We can still do that by trivially fixing a bit your code. You should first
> > check if the new inserted request is over the last in the current queue before
> > entering the tmp1/tmp2 logic.
>
> Yes this can be done, but it will affect where requests are inserted.
> Suppose the queue currently contains:
>
> 100 200 300 400 10 20 30
>
> If request 150 is to be inserted, then with my previous patch it
> will be inserted between 100 and 200, but with the proposed
> change it will instead be inserted at the end.

This is a bug in Andrea's idea. The request should only
be inserted at the end of the list if:

1) the block numbre is bigger than head->prev (which you
already have)

AND

2) the block number is smaller than head (or head->next
if the current request is unplugged)

regards,

Rik
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