On Wed, Dec 05 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:07:07PM +1100, Aaron Carroll wrote:
> > New write batches currently start from where the last one completed.
> > We have no idea where the head is after switching batches, so this
> > makes little sense. Instead, start the next batch from the request
> > with the earliest deadline in the hope that we avoid a deadline
> > expiry later on.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <[email protected]>
>
> I think this seems reasonable. What's deadline doing in this case?
> They should probably be kept in synch where possible...
Aaron sent a similar patch for deadline a while ago, so this just
matches them up again. I acked that patch, it makes a lot of sense to
me.
--
Jens Axboe
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