Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753680Ab0LHIAH (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 03:00:07 -0500 Received: from fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.37]:38567 "EHLO fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751043Ab0LHIAF (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 03:00:05 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.4.0 Message-ID: <4CFF3AD6.6010904@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:59:18 +0900 From: Satoru Takeuchi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; ja; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Linus Torvalds , Yasuaki Ishimatsu , "vgoyal@redhat.com" , "jmarchan@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Don't merge different partition's IOs References: <4CFCB08F.4010509@jp.fujitsu.com> <4CFDDFC3.2070107@jp.fujitsu.com> <4CFF34E7.2030401@fusionio.com> In-Reply-To: <4CFF34E7.2030401@fusionio.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 29 Hi Jens, (2010/12/08 16:33), Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2010-12-07 15:18, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: >> I hit on another approach. Although it doesn'tprevent any merge as Linus >> preferred, it can fix the problem anyway. In this idea, in_flight is >> incremented and decremented for the partition which the request belonged >> to in its creation. It has the following merits. Revert is already finished. 2.6.37-rc-5 and latest stable kernel doesn't contain Yasuaki's former logic. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/24/118 > > I really would prefer if we fixed up the patchset we ended up reverting. > At least that had a purpose with growing struct request, since we saved > on doing the partition lookups. > Thanks, Satoru -- 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/