> > Anyway, as a heads-up: 2.3.32 has the new block device queueing code,
> > courtesy of Eric Youngdale (and huge thanks to Alan Cox for walking
> > it over and making sure it works and is clean).
>
> What does it buy us?
RTFPatch, boy :)
Per-device io request queues, rather than a single one, means that
less searching is involved in finding/sorting io requests. I suspect
that it also means that the single io_request_lock might be on the way
out, too.
Matthew.
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