From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262034AbVERBGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 21:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261995AbVERBGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 21:06:20 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:20965 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262034AbVERBGQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 21:06:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:05:27 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tejun Heo Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.12-rc4] block: cfq request selection improvement Message-Id: <20050517180527.139fe4d0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050517141441.GA26769@htj.dyndns.org> References: <20050517141441.GA26769@htj.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > > Previously, each cfqq used separate sliding window (find_best_crq == > 1) or selected the first request (find_best_crq == 0). This patch > implements global sliding window (find_bset_crq == 2) for request > selection from cfqq. There's a great big revamp of the CFQ scheduler in -mm. Perhaps you should be testing and patching that?