Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263511AbUCPItP (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:49:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263560AbUCPItO (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:49:14 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:41870 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263511AbUCPItO (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:49:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:38:50 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Jeremy Higdon Cc: Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-backing dev unplugging #2 Message-ID: <20040316073850.GE5320@suse.de> References: <20040316052256.GA647970@sgi.com> <4056A062.6040203@cyberone.com.au> <20040316072046.GA636090@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040316072046.GA636090@sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 663 Lines: 18 On Mon, Mar 15 2004, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > I wonder why nobody's complained about this before? > > Well, some of us have, but probably not very loudly. I had > naively believed that the global unplug was gone in 2.6. Ditching plugging at the water cooler doesn't count as complain, it needs to get out in the open :-). When Intel posted their patch and numbers, that was the first I heard of it. -- Jens Axboe - 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/