Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Skip I/O merges when disabled

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 03:37:24 EST


On Mon, Apr 28 2008, Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
> Jens -
>
> Would you consider taking in a patch set that had the tunable + enabled
> one-hit cache tries only? I don't see where the back-merge attempts add
> anything in a truly random case.
>

Yep, I'm fine with that. Back merging wont help on truly random of
course, but it may make the switch more appealing to half-random cases
as well. But lets just go with a switch that turns off all search
merging and only keeps the one-hit cache.

--
Jens Axboe

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