On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:09:36 +0100, Ulrich Windl
<Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> said:
> I was jsut browsing the patch for 1.3.63 when I was surprised by one
> comment (ll_rw_blk.c, ?): Some time ago the request queue sorted read
> and write requests with equal precedence and the comment was
> adjusted. Now the comment again states that reads are preferred over
> writes again, but I must have missed the change.
Check your patches --- the actual elevator ordering code, defined in
include/linux/blk.h, is still sorting reads with writes (as of .64).
Cheers,
Stephen.
-- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.