Re: Unneeded Code Found??

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 07:58:55PM -0500, Randy Appleton wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >If you never get a hit, it means either (a) your test load actually 
> >doesn't have one, or (b) the code isn't correctly finding them.
> 
> 
> It might be buggy code on my part, but it looks pretty solid to me.   
> I'd be happy to show anyone interested.
> My load ought to find such a merge, if they happen with any freqency at 
> all.  Compiling two kernels
> at the same time and "general running" are my two current loads.  The 
> disk queue gets to over 70
> entries, which is rather high for a personal workstation, and I'm 
> searching tens of thousands to accesses
> in total.
> 
> Does anyone know that this code is actualy useful?  Has anyone ever seen 
> it actually do a merge of consecutive
> data accesses for requests that were not issued themselves consequtively?


What kernel version are you testing against?
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