Re: about modularization

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 15:00:15 EST



* Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/03/2007 03:19 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > One of the authors of the IO scheduler code said it on lkml recently
> > that while modularization of IO scheduler had advantages too, in
> > retrospect he wishes they would not have made IO schedulers modular
> > and now that decision cannot be undone.
>
> Just as a matter of interest -- why can't it? (a pointer to a list
> archive if you have one, or a name so I can look for it myself if you
> don't, will do as answer).

some apps depend on AS, some on CFQ, and once you expose something to
users it's _very_ hard to remove it, even if the technical arguments are
strong.

http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2007/04/16/23

Ingo
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