From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932336AbWHGXZe (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932338AbWHGXZe (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:25:34 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:3817 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932249AbWHGXZc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:25:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CSu/L97oh3Hoz27WkO/uJjcSTwfFmW9xdTSVMm5FYfKx4R99TPhizqLr54LmRZR2tjWi1u8aIwgSyK80sGSISJiNknXBRv/CQMxmljbrljg/3ZGqwP/fGeJ86RflD1IfjWYiL+nN+TNASFgbFsKnGsiwp49/fhgrb4jSwZIQsnU= Message-ID: <5c49b0ed0608071614k3a62a982jbe27fa0c6d5fdb0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:14:59 -0700 From: "Nate Diller" To: "Jens Axboe" Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060804133938.GX20624@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5c49b0ed0608031911id21b112t7f0c350a7f10a99@mail.gmail.com> <20060804052031.GA4717@suse.de> <20060803224519.dd9bf38e.akpm@osdl.org> <20060804133938.GX20624@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/4/06, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:20:32 +0200 > > Jens Axboe 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? I hope to have a much-cleaned-up version tomorrow thanks NATE