Re: [2.6.6-mm4-ff1] I/O context isolation

[FabF <Fabian.Frederick@skynet.be>]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:53, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, May 21 2004, FabF wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:38, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > FabF wrote:
> > > > Jens,
> > > > 
> > > > 	Here's ff1 patchset to have generic I/O context.
> > > > ff1 : Export io context operations from blkdev/ll_rw_blk (ok)
> > > > ff2 : Make io_context generic plateform by importing IO stuff from
> > > > as_io.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Can I just ask why you want as_io_context in generic code?
> > > It is currently nicely hidden away in as-iosched.c where
> > > nobody else needs to ever see it.
> > I do want I/O context to be generic not the whole as_io.
> > That export should bring:
> > 	-All elevators to use io_context
> 
> For?

Well I was completely wrong :( ll_rw_blk uses i/o context all over the
place so all elv do as well ... You're right Jens, the only good thing
to do there would be to extract anticipation.

Regards,
FabF