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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2003-07-04 19:36:59 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@home.osdl.org>2003-07-04 19:36:59 -0700
commit08f364136f8ebfd780d52960dd4834746190d98a (patch)
tree95001f201ced920596460ea4a37f8e75e78e3d7d /kernel
parent4e83dc011fab1ab827a991fadccf581f541bf880 (diff)
[PATCH] allow the IO scheduler to pass an allocation hint to
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> This patch implements a hint so that AS can tell the request allocator to allocate a request even if there are none left (the accounting is quite flexible and easily handles overallocations). elv_may_queue semantics have changed from "the elevator does _not_ want another request allocated" to "the elevator _insists_ that another request is allocated". I couldn't see any harm ;) Now in practice, AS will only allow _1_ request over the limit, because as soon as the request is sent to AS, it stops anticipating.
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