From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [resent PATCH] Re: very slow parallel read performance
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:09:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108272019.WAA20893@ns.cablesurf.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108241600410.31410-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> <20010827185803Z16034-32384+632@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <200108271955.f7RJtia19506@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200108271955.f7RJtia19506@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
Am Montag, 27. August 2001 21:55 schrieb Richard Gooch:
> Daniel Phillips writes:
> > The quesion is, how do you know you're streaming? Some files are
> > read/written many times and some files are accessed randomly. I'm
> > trying to avoid penalizing these admittedly rarer, but still
> > important cases.
>
> I wonder if we're trying to do the impossible: an algorithm that works
> great for very different workloads, without hints from the process.
For streaming we should be able to detect consecutive reads.
If it's not that easy could we not measure hit/miss ratios ?
> Shouldn't we encourage use of madvise(2) more? And if needed, add
> O_DROPBEHIND and similar flags for open(2).
For symmetry rather fadvise. Besides usage patterns may change.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-27 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 123+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-23 21:35 very slow parallel read performance Lehmann
2001-08-24 7:35 ` [resent PATCH] " Roger Larsson
2001-08-24 17:43 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-24 18:28 ` Roger Larsson
2001-08-24 19:02 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-24 20:37 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-24 23:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 8:02 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-25 9:26 ` Roger Larsson
2001-08-25 11:49 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-25 17:56 ` Roger Larsson
2001-08-25 19:13 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-25 13:17 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-24 22:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-24 23:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 0:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 7:08 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-27 14:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 14:42 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-27 15:14 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-27 16:04 ` Daniel Phillips
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108271213370.5646-100000@imladris.rielhome.cone ctiva>
2001-08-27 19:34 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-27 20:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-08-27 20:19 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-27 21:38 ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-08-27 22:26 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-27 21:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 16:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 19:36 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-27 20:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 16:55 ` David Lang
2001-08-27 18:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 18:37 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-08-27 19:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 19:43 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-08-27 20:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 22:10 ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-08-27 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-27 22:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-27 23:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-28 3:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-27 19:55 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-27 20:09 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2001-08-27 21:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-24 20:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-24 20:19 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-24 21:11 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-24 23:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 0:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-25 1:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 15:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-25 15:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 16:28 ` Lehmann
2001-08-25 16:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 16:41 ` Lehmann
2001-08-26 16:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 18:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 19:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 19:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 20:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 22:33 ` Russell King
2001-08-26 23:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 23:24 ` Russell King
2001-08-27 0:07 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-27 0:02 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-27 0:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-25 16:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-25 19:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-25 19:35 ` Lehmann
2001-08-25 20:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 0:46 ` John Stoffel
2001-08-26 1:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-26 3:30 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 3:40 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 5:28 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 1:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 2:49 ` Lehmann
2001-08-26 17:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 17:37 ` Craig I. Hagan
2001-08-26 18:56 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 19:18 ` Lehmann
2001-08-26 21:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 22:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 23:24 ` Lehmann
2001-08-26 20:26 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-26 21:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 3:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 13:22 ` Lehmann
2001-08-26 13:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 14:55 ` Lehmann
2001-08-26 15:06 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 15:25 ` Lehmann
2001-08-25 21:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-25 23:34 ` Lehmann
2001-08-26 2:02 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 2:57 ` Lehmann
2001-08-24 23:23 ` Lehmann
[not found] ` <200108242344.f7ONi0h21270@mailg.telia.com>
2001-08-25 0:28 ` Lehmann
2001-08-25 3:09 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 9:13 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-26 16:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 18:59 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-08-26 19:38 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 20:05 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-08-26 20:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-26 20:45 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-08-26 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-26 20:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-26 19:31 ` Lehmann
2001-08-24 19:42 ` Lehmann
2001-08-24 21:42 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-25 0:05 ` Craig I. Hagan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-27 2:03 Rick Hohensee
2001-08-27 2:52 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-28 17:52 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-08-28 21:54 ` Matthew M
2001-08-28 1:08 Dieter Nützel
2001-08-28 0:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-28 1:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-28 5:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-08-28 18:18 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-28 18:45 ` Hans Reiser
2001-08-28 15:28 Dieter Nützel
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