This code was not actively maintained since it was introduced 10 years ago.
It lacks support for many later GEOM features, such as direct dispatch,
unmapped I/O, stripesize/stripeoffset, resize, etc. Plus it is the only
remaining use of GEOM nstart/nend request counters, used there to implement
live insertion/removal, questionable by itself. Plus, as number of people
commented, GEOM is not the best place for I/O scheduler, since it has
limited information about layers both above and below it, required for
efficient scheduling. Plus with the modern shift to SSDs there is just no
more significant need for this kind of scheduling.
Approved by: imp, phk, luigi
Relnotes: yes
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