On Tue, Sep 20 2005, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >>The name for one. There is no elevator algorithm anywhere in it. There
> >>is a least block number first algorithm that was called an elevator, but
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Well the terminology changed to "io scheduler" now, however the
> >residual "elevator" name found in places doesn't cause anyone
> >any problems and there isn't much reason to change it other than
> >the desire to break things.
> >
> >
> Did you really say that? I mean, come on, can't you at least manage a
> "well, it ought to get changed but I am busy with something more
> exciting to me".
Seeing as you are the one that is apparently bothered by the misnomer,
it follows that you would be the one submitting a patch for this. Not
that it would be accepted though, I don't see much point in renaming
functions and breaking drivers just because of a slightly bad name. The
io schedulers are all called foo-iosched.c, it's only the simple core
api that uses the 'elevator' description.
--
Jens Axboe
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