Re: (reiserfs) Re: An elevator algorithm (patch)

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 14:41:17 EST


On Tue, Sep 19 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > But there may be several p points in the queue, how are you going
> > to keep track of all of them?
>
> With the current elevator there should be only 1 p point, but with the

I don't see any reason why there can't be multiple p points in the current
elevator.

> modification Peter suggested there can be more and we should track the one
> more on the back of the queue. I don't think it's worthwhile.

Agree, I don't think the added complexity would be worth it.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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