From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 13/14] block, bfq: boost the throughput with random
 I/O on NCQ-capable HDDs
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 I/O on NCQ-capable HDDs
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:54:06 +0000
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On Sat, 2017-03-04 at 17:01 +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
> @@ -8301,7 +8297,7 @@ static struct blkcg_policy blkcg_policy_bfq = {
>  static int __init bfq_init(void)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> -	char msg[50] = "BFQ I/O-scheduler: v6";
> +	char msg[50] = "BFQ I/O-scheduler: v7r3";
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
>  	ret = blkcg_policy_register(&blkcg_policy_bfq);

In the Linux kernel the kernel as a whole has a version number but we
do not assign a version number to individual core components.

Bart.