Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:14:18 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 |
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:52:08PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Do you know why? Is it because the average seek distance becomes
Good question. No I don't know why right now. I'll try again just to be 200% sure and I'll let you know the results.
> smaller with your algorithm? (I later realized that request merging is > done before the elevator function kicks in, so your algorithm should
Not sure what you mean. There are two cases: the bh is merged, or the bh will be queued in a new request because merging isn't possible.
Your change deals only with the latter case and that should be pretty orthogonal to what the merging stuff does.
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