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SubjectRe: (reiserfs) Re: An elevator algorithm (patch)
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:38:52PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I haven't had a chance to really look at Peter's mods yet, but surely
> the current elevator can have many entries with 0 sequence. As an
> example, say the start sequence is 3 and we received request sector
> 10...1 in descending order. The sorted order would then be
>
> 7[3] 8[2] 9[1] 10[0] 3[3] 4[2] 5[1] 6[0] 1[3] 2[2]
p
With point `p' I mean the request after last barrier in the queue.

With the current algorithm we can trivially account for p each time
we do elevator_sequence--. elevator_sequence can't go below zero
and we never play with stuff before the last barrier. So the first
time !--req->elevator_sequence is true we would know that req->next
is the new p (if it's not real_head).

Then we would insert at the left of p if the new req is lower than p.


With the modification instead we could have this queue:

100[0]

Then we insert 102 103 and 104:

100[0] 102[3] 103[3] 104[3]
p

Then when we try to insert 99 it goes here:

100[0] 102[3] 103[3] 104[3] 99[3]
p

So we have two low peaks in the not starving queue and we should move the p
to the latest on the right.

Also we should make different cases in function of what p->prev is
(barrier/head/real_head/normalreq).

I don't think it's worthwhile (even with the current algorithm where it's easy
to account for p).

Andrea
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