From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Shaun <delius@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk Performance Measurements
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:46:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010503124647.F16507@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010502124445.J25336@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105030750410.10591-100000@ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105030750410.10591-100000@ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au>; from delius@progsoc.uts.edu.au on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:59:53AM +1000
On Thu, May 03 2001, Shaun wrote:
> Again, this isn't the case in the 2.2.16 kernel I'm working with. Each
> call to make_request() causes pgin/pgout to be incremented, since these
> requests can be of different sizes (even for the same disk) I can't see
> how a kb value can be deduced.
Check if the latest 2.2 is correct then, 2.4 is.
> Just as a question though, a disk/partition doesn't need to have a
> filesystem on it, so why is the "correct_size" for a buffer request on the
> block device defined based on a filesystem block system?
It's not, but the fs may set the block size (ext2 does).
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-03 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-02 6:31 Disk Performance Measurements Shaun
2001-05-02 10:44 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-02 21:59 ` Shaun
2001-05-03 10:46 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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