From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: jraidman-linux@yahoo.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: elevator abstraction, anticipatory I/O backported to 2.4?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:36:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806223616.36bab872.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040807000316.85612.qmail@web81706.mail.yahoo.com>
Josh Radel <jraidman-linux@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Are there any existing patches for a backport of the
> 2.6 elevator abstraction (or a specific patch for
> anticipatory I/O) to 2.4 kernels?
Not that I know of.
> I've heard rumors that Digeo backported a 2.6 I/O
> scheduler.
No, Digeo use a modified+fixed version of the infamous read_latency2 patch,
against 2.4.20.
> However, when I tried to download their
> open source modifications from
> http://www.digeo.com/prodserv/opensource.jsp, I wasn't
> able to extract their work. (The zip file unzips to a
> tar.bz2, which seems to be corrupt.)
I'll poke someone.
> Who knows, maybe
> an I/O scheduler backport isn't in that archive
> anyway.
Nope, sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-07 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-07 0:03 Josh Radel
2004-08-07 5:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-08-09 18:29 ` Jens Axboe
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