Re: 2.5.46-mm2

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:32:08PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> I've attached a small document describing the deadline io scheduler
>>> tunables. stream_unit is not in Andrew's version, yet, it uses a hard
>>> defined 128KiB. Also, Andrew didn't apply the rbtree patch only the
>>> tunable patch. So it uses the same insertion algorithm as the default
>>> kernel, two linked lists.

On Sun, Nov 10 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Okay, then I'll want the rbtree code for benchmarking.

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:57:57PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Sure, I want to talk akpm into merging the rbtree code for real. Or I
> can just drop you my current version, if you want.

Go for it, I'm just trying to get tiobench to actually run (seems to
have new/different "die from too many threads" behavior wrt. --threads).
Dropping me a fresh kernel shouldn't slow anything down.

Bill

P.S.:	elvtune gets hung for a long time, it says:
	ioctl get: Inappropriate ioctl for device
	did it schedule with something held and get out of deadlock free?

P.P.S:	kgdb broke wchan reporting... investigating