Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:45:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 |
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Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:36:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The patch I sent puts read requests near the head of the request > > queue, and to hell with aggregate throughput. It's tunable with > > `elvtune -b'. And it fixes it. > > for i in `seq 9`; do elvtune -b $i /dev/hda; done > > -b doesn't seem to change the "max_bomb_segments". Does your patch fix this? >
Yes, it does.
Presumably, once upon a time, max_bomb_segments actually did something. But it's a complete no-op at present, so I co-opted it.
Nice name, but I'd prefer max_cluster_bombs.
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