On Sat, Aug 28 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

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I was under the impression this had something to do with IO
schedulers.

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 03:13:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

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Separate issue.

It certainly appears to be the deciding factor from the thread.

Has nothing to do with the io scheduler itself, apart from the fact that
CFQ exposes the problem by setting a larger q->nr_requests. And that is
the very deciding factor, not the io scheduler.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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