On Fri, May 09 2003, Shane Shrybman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The problem first appeared in 2.5.68-mm3 and is not in mainline 2.5.69.
> It is present in all -mm releases since.

Curious. Looking at patches between .68-mm2 and -mm3 reveals nothing
major, in fact the only thing touching anything in that area seems to be
the dynamic request allocation patch. Could you try 2.5.69 with the
attached patch to verify that it still works (or doesn't)? There might
be a small offset in deadline-iosched.c, should be nothing to worry
about.

-- 
Jens Axboe