Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932419AbWHGXml (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:42:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932422AbWHGXml (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:42:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9196 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932419AbWHGXmk (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:42:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:42:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Nate Diller" Cc: "Jens Axboe" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/3] add elv_extended_request call to iosched API Message-Id: <20060807164230.03ed89a7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0608071614k3a62a982jbe27fa0c6d5fdb0@mail.gmail.com> References: <5c49b0ed0608031911id21b112t7f0c350a7f10a99@mail.gmail.com> <20060804052031.GA4717@suse.de> <20060803224519.dd9bf38e.akpm@osdl.org> <20060804133938.GX20624@suse.de> <5c49b0ed0608071614k3a62a982jbe27fa0c6d5fdb0@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: 1696 Lines: 42 On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:14:59 -0700 "Nate Diller" wrote: > On 8/4/06, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > 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 > > > > not so much the renaming (that's easy enough), but the elevator core > > parts changed in some areas. > > would it be appropriate to submit against 2.6.18-rc3-mm2? Yes, that should give us a patch which Jens can use. Be aware that I've just gone and dropped git-block.patch due to suspend/resume problems. I expect it'll come back within a suitable timeframe for you, but if it doesn't, inclusion in -mm might be delayed. - 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/