Re: [PATCH 1/2] Don't merge different partition's IOs

[Satoru Takeuchi]

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

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