Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030345AbWHDFqM (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 01:46:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030348AbWHDFpv (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 01:45:51 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:53381 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030345AbWHDFp0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 01:45:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:45:19 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jens Axboe Cc: nate.diller@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API Message-Id: <20060803224519.dd9bf38e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060804052031.GA4717@suse.de> References: <5c49b0ed0608031911id21b112t7f0c350a7f10a99@mail.gmail.com> <20060804052031.GA4717@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; 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: 974 Lines: 25 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:20:32 +0200 Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Nate Diller wrote: > > the Elevator iosched would prefer to be unconditionally notified of a > > merge, but the current API calls only one 'merge' notifier > > (elv_merge_requests or elv_merged_requests), even if both front and > > back merges happened. > > > > elv_extended_request satisfies this requirement in conjunction with > > elv_merge_requests. > > Ok, I suppose. But please rebase patches against the 'block' git branch, > there are extensive changes in this area. > argh, the great (but partial ;)) renaming bites again. A suitable patch to merge against is http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/git-block.patch - 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/