Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16

From: Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 02:58:53 EST


On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:42:34AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 2: The current elevator design is downright cruel to humans in
> > the presence of heavy write traffic.
>
> max_bomb_segments logic was established to help absolutely _nothing_ a
> long time ago.
>
> I agree that the current i/o scheduler has really bad interactive
> performance -- at first sight your changes looks mostly like add-on
> hacks though. Arjan's priority based scheme is more promising.
>

Based on pid priority or niceness?
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