I really don't like this one. It will basically re-introduce the old
behaviour of waking people up in a trickle, as far as I can tell. The
reason we want the batching is to make people have more requests to sort
in the elevator, and as far as I can tell this will just hurt that.
Are there any downsides to just _always_ batching, regardless of whether
the request freelist is empty or not? Sure, it will make the "effective"
size of the freelist a bit smaller, but that's probably not actually
noticeable under any load except for the one that empties the freelist (in
which case the old code would have triggered the batching anyway).
Performance numbers?
Linus
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