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Message-ID: <4DFFA814.40006@fusionio.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:05:40 +0200 From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com> To: Justin TerAvest <teravest@...gle.com> CC: "vgoyal@...hat.com" <vgoyal@...hat.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "hch@...radead.org" <hch@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs. On 2011-06-20 22:03, Justin TerAvest wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com> wrote: >> On 2011-06-20 21:52, Justin TerAvest wrote: >>> There is no consistency among filesystems from what bios (or requests) >>> are marked as being metadata. It's interesting to expose this in traces, >>> but we shouldn't schedule the requests differently based on whether or >>> not they're marked as being metadata. >> >> Agree, we should kill that. What is this patch against? cfq_choose_req() >> also has a "choose meta over non-meta" preference. > > This is against for-3.1. Let me know if you want it against something else. Great, right branch. > Sorry, I missed the preference in cfq_choose_req, since it changed to > be clever about bit operations. I'll send a v2 patch that cleans that > use up as well. Thanks! -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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