Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:14:59 -0700
"Nate Diller" <nate.diller@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/4/06, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:20:32 +0200
> > > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Nate Diller wrote:
> > > > > the Elevator iosched would prefer to be unconditionally notified of a
> > > > > merge, but the current API calls only one 'merge' notifier
> > > > > (elv_merge_requests or elv_merged_requests), even if both front and
> > > > > back merges happened.
> > > > >
> > > > > elv_extended_request satisfies this requirement in conjunction with
> > > > > elv_merge_requests.
> > > >
> > > > Ok, I suppose. But please rebase patches against the 'block' git branch,
> > > > there are extensive changes in this area.
> > > >
> > >
> > > argh, the great (but partial ;)) renaming bites again.
> > >
> > > A suitable patch to merge against is
> > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/git-block.patch
> >
> > not so much the renaming (that's easy enough), but the elevator core
> > parts changed in some areas.
> 
> would it be appropriate to submit against 2.6.18-rc3-mm2?

Yes, that should give us a patch which Jens can use.

Be aware that I've just gone and dropped git-block.patch due to
suspend/resume problems.  I expect it'll come back within a suitable
timeframe for you, but if it doesn't, inclusion in -mm might be delayed.