From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030380AbWGMUtv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:49:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030381AbWGMUtv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:49:51 -0400 Received: from [83.101.155.109] ([83.101.155.109]:26630 "EHLO raad.intranet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030380AbWGMUtu (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:49:50 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] 0/15 IO scheduler improvements Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:50:47 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607132350.47388.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > > This is a continuation of the patches posted yesterday, I continued > to build on them. The patch series does: > > - Move the hash backmerging into the elevator core. > - Move the rbtree handling into the elevator core. > - Abstract the FIFO handling into the elevator core. > - Kill the io scheduler private requests, that require allocation/free > for each request passed through the system. > > The result is a faster elevator core (and faster IO schedulers), with a > nice net reduction of kernel text and code as well. Thanks! Your efforts are much appreciated, as the current situation is a bit awkward. > If you have time, please give this patch series a test spin just to > verify that everything still works for you. Thanks! Do you have a combo-patch against 2.6.17? Thanks! -- Al