Re: An elevator algorithm (patch)

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 15:38:17 EST


On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:05:55PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > to be addressed ASAP. I've witnessed this starvation happen
> > a couple of times and it's a really big problem...
>
> Did you enabled the latency control as I suggested you a few days ago?

Yes, I run my system with elvtune -r 250 -w 500.

But even with -r 5 -w 5, I saw starvation. This, and
the code, is a clear sign to me that Peter is absolutely
right and his corrections to the code should be merged.

regards,

Rik

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