--On Monday, April 11, 2005 01:25:32 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI > disks which perform tagged command queueing. There's a patch here from Jens > which is designed to fix that up by constraining the number of requests > which we'll leave pending in the device. > > The depth currently defaults to 1. Tunable in > /sys/block/hdX/queue/iosched/queue_depth > > This patch hasn't been performance tested at all yet. If you think it is > misbehaving (the usual symptom is processes stuck in D state) then please > report it, then boot with `elevator=cfq' or `elevator=deadline' to work > around it. > > - More CPU scheduler work. I hope someone is testing this stuff. Trying ... having some build problems that seem to be part test-harness, part bugs. Meanwhile on PPC64: fs/cifs/misc.c: In function `cifs_convertUCSpath': fs/cifs/misc.c:546: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant fs/cifs/misc.c:549: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant fs/cifs/misc.c:552: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant fs/cifs/misc.c:561: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant fs/cifs/misc.c:564: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant fs/cifs/misc.c:567: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant make[2]: *** [fs/cifs/misc.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [fs/cifs] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
