Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:39:39 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: nate.diller@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API
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On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:20:32 +0200
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> 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

not so much the renaming (that's easy enough), but the elevator core
parts changed in some areas.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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