Re: queue_nr_requests needs to be selective

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:23:18 -0800


"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
>
> The issue here is that it sleeps too much
> and what's really happening and that we are forcing 8 disk drives
> toshare 64/128 request buffers rather than provide each physical disk
> with what it really needs.

OK. So would it suffice to make queue_nr_requests an argument to
a new blk_init_queue()?

- blk_init_queue(q, sci_request);
+ blk_init_queue_ng(q, sci_request, 1024);

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