Chen, Kenneth W wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:13 PM
> Jens Axboe wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:54 AM
> > On Tue, Mar 29 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> > > Jens Axboe wrote on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:04 PM
> > > > No such promise was ever made, noop just means it does 'basically
> > > > nothing'. It never meant FIFO in anyway, we cannot break the semantics
> > > > of block layer commands just for the hell of it.
> > >
> > > Acknowledged and understood, will try your patch shortly.
> >
> > Did you test it?
>
> Experiment is in the queue, should have a result in a day or two.
Jens, your patch works! We are seeing a little bit increase in indirect
branch calls with your patch where our patch tries to remove elevator_merge_fn()
completely. But the difference is all within noise range.
If there is no other issues (I don't see any), we would like to see this patch
merged upstream. Thanks.
- Ken
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
