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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@lycos.it>
To: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	gandalf@wlug.westbo.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:12:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401072112.35334.ornati@lycos.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073503421.10018.17.camel@dyn319250.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 20:23, Ram Pai wrote:
>
> I tried on my lab machine with scsi disks. (I dont have access currently
> to a spare machine with ide disks.)
>
> I find that reverting the changes in mm/filemap.c and then reverting the
> lazy-read optimization gives much better sequential read performance on
> blockdevices.  Is this your observation on IDE disks too?

Yes and No.
I have only tried to revert lazy-read optimization (without any visible 
change) so I have reapplied it AND THAN I have reverted changes in 
mm/filemap.c... and performance has gone back.

>
> > I don't know why... but it does.
>
> Lets see. I think my theory is partly the reason. But the changes in
> filemap.c seems to be influencing more.

YES, I agree.
I haven't done a lot of tests but it seems to me that the changes in 
mm/filemap.c are the only things that influence the sequential read 
performance on my disk.

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux v2.4.23


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-07 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-02 16:02 Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again) Paolo Ornati
2004-01-02 18:08 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-01-02 21:04   ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-02 21:27     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-03 10:20       ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-02 21:32     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-02 22:34       ` Martin Josefsson
2004-01-03 11:13         ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-03 22:40           ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-04 14:30             ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-05 23:19               ` Ram Pai
2004-01-07 14:59                 ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-07 19:23                   ` Ram Pai
2004-01-07 20:12                     ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2004-01-07 23:57                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-08  7:31                         ` Ram Pai
2004-01-09  1:05                         ` Ram Pai
2004-01-09  1:17                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 19:15                             ` Ram Pai
2004-01-09 19:44                               ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-10 14:48                               ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-10 16:00                                 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-01-10 16:19                                   ` Ed Sweetman
2004-01-10 17:29                                     ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-10 17:29                                   ` Paolo Ornati
2004-03-29 15:45               ` Ram Pai
2004-01-04 17:15             ` Buffer and Page cache coherent? was: " Mike Fedyk
2004-01-04 22:10               ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-04 23:22                 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-04 23:32                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-04 23:45                     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-05  0:23                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-03 10:20       ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-03  3:33     ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-01-03  4:15       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-03 13:39         ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-01-03 20:56           ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-01-04  3:02         ` jw schultz

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