Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751406AbWHDBG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:06:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751410AbWHDBG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:06:57 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:40373 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751406AbWHDBG4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:06:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:03:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Nate Diller" Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , "Jens Axboe" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/2] Remove Deadline I/O scheduler Message-Id: <20060803180337.a7f89a17.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0608031715l7e8f9c7dyd647a11c44c73400@mail.gmail.com> References: <5c49b0ed0608031557n405196ack3fa2024aae8a9475@mail.gmail.com> <20060803234648.GK25692@stusta.de> <5c49b0ed0608031715l7e8f9c7dyd647a11c44c73400@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 20 On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:15:47 -0700 "Nate Diller" wrote: > My goal is not to get > deadline removed, but a discussion with Andrew some months ago showed > he was averse to creating more options than we already have. hm, we must have miscommunicated here. The way to handle the elevator scheduler is to just add it as a new feature not touch deadline. Leter (and it might be over a year) we might decide to remove deadline. But the cost of carrying it is veyr low. - 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/