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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jarkko Lavinen <jlavi@iki.fi>
Cc: MTD List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>, jffs-dev@axis.com
Subject: Re: Benchmarking JFFS2
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:11:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16057.1021281106@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020513114008.A3267@kosh.hut.fi>

jlavi@iki.fi said:
>  Is this too naive approach? This relies perhaps too much on the
> randomness of  semi-random numbers and might mean only first few nodes
> are ever picked up  and never nodes from the tail. 

I think naïve is fine. In fact, I can't even justify the suggestion that it 
be exponential -- we could probably do just as well by picking the first 
(i.e. dirtiest) block with 85% probability, and picking some other block 
off the list with uniform distribution the other 15% of the time.

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-13  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-02 12:56 Benchmarking JFFS2 Jarkko Lavinen
2002-05-02 13:40 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-03 17:19   ` Jarkko Lavinen
2002-05-03 17:54     ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-06 12:19       ` Jarkko Lavinen
2002-05-07 15:02         ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-07 15:13           ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-05-07 17:46           ` Jarkko Lavinen
2002-05-07 19:42             ` David Woodhouse
2002-10-08 17:10         ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-12 19:04   ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-13  8:40     ` Jarkko Lavinen
2002-05-13  9:11       ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-10-17 10:36   ` Jarkko Lavinen
2003-01-23 12:09     ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-13 12:38       ` Jarkko Lavinen

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