Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:30:40 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: don't allow aliased requests to starve others |
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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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