Re: [PATCHSET] 0/15 IO scheduler improvements

[Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>]

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

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