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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: don't allow aliased requests to starve others
On 07/23/2010 05:07 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> writes:
>> Also for my education purposes I was curious to know that why can't
>> we keep aliased requests in the service tree.
>
> You know, I dug back through the logs, and I didn't find any mention of
> that. The anticipatory scheduler used to allow such aliases, but then
> that support was removed in favor of a simpler approach. So, the reason
> may just be out of convenience.

There's no technical reason why we can't do that, at least it'll work in
the rbtree.

--
Jens Axboe



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