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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:27:10 -0700
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Rui Sousa <rsousa@grad.physics.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Blocked processes <=> Elevator starvation?
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On Sat, Oct 28 2000, Rui Sousa wrote:
> After adding
> 
> #define ELEVATOR_HOLE_MERGE     3
> 
> to linux/include/linux/elevator.h it compiled ok.

Oops sorry, I'm on the road so the patch was extracted
from my packet writing tree (and not my regular tree).

> There were still some stalls but they only lasted a couple of
> seconds. The patch did make a difference and for the better.

Ok, still needs a bit of work. Thanks for the feedback.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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