Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263637AbTE0OXy (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 10:23:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263638AbTE0OXy (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 10:23:54 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:38415 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263637AbTE0OXw (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 10:23:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 07:36:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jens Axboe cc: James Bottomley , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver In-Reply-To: <20030527065436.GX845@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 20 On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Here's something ridicolously simple, that just wont start a new tag if > the oldest tag is older than 100ms. Clearly nothing for submission, but > it gets the point across. Yes, I think something like this should work very well. In fact, it might fit in very well indeed with AS - and in general it might be a good idea to have some nice interface for the IO scheduler to give this kind of ordering hints down to the hardware. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/