From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] max-sectors-2.6.9-rc1-bk14-A0
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:54:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040908105415.GB5523@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040908101719.GH2258@suse.de>
* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> Wasn't the move of the ide_lock grabbing enough to solve this problem
> by itself?
yes and no. It does solve it for the specific case of the
voluntary-preemption patches: there hardirqs can run in separate kernel
threads which are preemptable (no HARDIRQ_OFFSET). In stock Linux
hardirqs are not preemptable so the earlier dropping of ide_lock doesnt
solve the latency.
so in the upstream kernel the only solution is to reduce the size of IO.
(I'll push the hardirq patches later on too but their acceptance should
not hinder people in achieving good latencies.) It can be useful for
other reasons too to reduce IO, so why not? The patch certainly causes
no overhead anywhere in the block layer and people are happy with it.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-08 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 10:04 [patch] max-sectors-2.6.9-rc1-bk14-A0 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-08 10:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-08 10:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-08 11:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-08 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-08 10:17 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-08 10:54 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-09-08 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
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