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    On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:45, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

    Hi Andrea,

    > > I try to backport BIO and then AS for quite over 2 weeks now, but it
    > > seems, at least for me, that it's an impossible mission ;(
    > bio breaks all drivers, not a good idea to backport ;)
    HAHAHAH. Another wasted 2 weeks in my life ;-)

    But why does it brake all drivers? Could you please elaborate a bit?

    > note that the anticipatory scheduler generates very bad results with the
    > winmark. it certainly has merits but it has large downsides too.
    hmm, I am not aware of it, or even I _was_ not aware of it till now.

    > I would be also curious if you could compare anticipatory with CFQ. The
    > CFQ was designed to provide the highest possible degree of fariness.
    I'll can bench it, sure. I used CFQ before I switched to AS because I was
    curious about AS and as I didn't see a real difference in latency but AS gave
    me more throughput, I use AS from now on.

    > I read it on l-k yesterday a few days ago, search emails from Linus with
    > Jens somewhere in CC and you should find it.
    Already found it :) thank you.

    ciao, Marc

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