On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
> The changes made were never half-done. The recent bug fixes have
> mainly been to remove cruft from the earlier elevator and fixing a bug
> where the elevator insert would screw up a bit. So I'd call that fine
> tuning or adjusting, not fixing half-done stuff.
sorry i did not mean to offend you - unadjusted and unfixed stuff hanging
around in the kernel for months is 'half done' for me.
> > the first reports about bad write performance came right after the
> > original elevator patches went in, about 6 months ago.
>
> And a new elevator was introduced some months ago to solve this.
and these are still not solved in the vanilla kernel, as recent complaints
on l-k prove.
Ingo
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