Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:10:15 -0800 (PST)


From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:59:36 -0200 (BRST)

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote:

> Andrew Morten`s read-latency.patch is a clear winner for me, too.

AFAIK Andrew's code simply adds schedule points around the kernel, right?

If so, nope, I do not plan to integrate it.

No, this is the block I/O scheduler changes he did which up the
priority of reads wrt. writes so they do not sit around forever.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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