Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 27 May 2003 07:36:49 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> Here's something ridicolously simple, that just wont start a new tag if
> the oldest tag is older than 100ms. Clearly nothing for submission, but
> it gets the point across.

Yes, I think something like this should work very well.

In fact, it might fit in very well indeed with AS - and in general it
might be a good idea to have some nice interface for the IO scheduler to
give this kind of ordering hints down to the hardware.

Linus

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