On 2011-02-02 23:55, Mike Snitzer wrote: > Set REQ_SORTED, in the @rw_flags passed to the request allocator, for > any request that may be put on IO scheduler. Skip elevator data > initialization during request allocation if REQ_SORTED is not set. > > REQ_SORTED is not set for flush requests because they are never put on > the IO scheduler. That looks very wrong. REQ_SORTED gets set _when_ the request is sorted into the IO scheduler. This is gross misuse, a bad hack. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html