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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>,
	Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
	Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interl
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:57:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213015757.GC25499@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040212205503.GA13934@hh.idb.hist.no>

Helge Hafting wrote:
> Something similiar could be done for io niceness.  If we run out of
> normal priority io, how about not issuing the low priority io
> right away.  Anticipate there will be more high-priority io
> and wait for some idle time before letting low-priority
> requests through.  And of course some maximum wait to prevent
> total starvation.

The problem is quite similar to scheduling for quality on a network
device.  Once a packet has started going it, usually you cannot abort
the packet for a higher priority one.

I thought there was a CBQ I/O scheduling patch or such to offer some
kind of I/O niceness these days?

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-13  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-11 19:04 ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interleaved writes Jon Burgess
2004-02-11 20:28 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-11 21:02   ` Michael Frank
2004-02-11 21:18     ` Diego Calleja
2004-02-12  2:00       ` Dave Olien
2004-02-12  2:23         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-12  9:42           ` ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interl Giuliano Pochini
2004-02-12 10:15             ` John Bradford
2004-02-12 10:27             ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 17:05               ` Michael Frank
2004-02-12 17:18                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-12 20:55                   ` Helge Hafting
2004-02-13  1:57                     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-02-13  2:05                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 14:59             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-13 12:15     ` ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interleaved writes Jon Burgess
2004-02-12 10:40   ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-12 20:17     ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-12  9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-12 20:20   ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-13  8:28     ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2004-02-16 17:51     ` Alex Zarochentsev
2004-02-16 20:03       ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-13 12:35   ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-14 15:00   ` Jon Burgess

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