From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Nathan G. Grennan" <ngrennan@okcforum.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:45:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C031A60.10527E6A@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E168U3m-00077F-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111262156140.4079-100000@imladris.surriel.com> <3C02E009.7C1F17C6@zip.com.au>, <3C02E009.7C1F17C6@zip.com.au> <20011126203856.D26219@mikef-linux.matchmail.com>
Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:36:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The patch I sent puts read requests near the head of the request
> > queue, and to hell with aggregate throughput. It's tunable with
> > `elvtune -b'. And it fixes it.
>
> for i in `seq 9`; do elvtune -b $i /dev/hda; done
>
> -b doesn't seem to change the "max_bomb_segments". Does your patch fix this?
>
Yes, it does.
Presumably, once upon a time, max_bomb_segments actually did
something. But it's a complete no-op at present, so I co-opted it.
Nice name, but I'd prefer max_cluster_bombs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-27 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-26 22:02 Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 Nathan G. Grennan
2001-11-26 22:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-26 23:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-11-27 0:05 ` Steve Lion
2001-11-27 9:12 ` Ahmed Masud
2001-11-27 17:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 20:31 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-27 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 21:19 ` Martin Eriksson
2001-11-27 21:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-28 18:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 18:57 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 20:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-28 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 20:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 23:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-27 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 0:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-27 4:38 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-27 4:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-11-27 1:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-26 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 7:42 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-27 7:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-27 8:01 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-27 8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 8:38 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-26 22:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2001-11-27 4:34 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-11-27 0:44 ` Lost Logic
2001-11-27 0:57 ` Lost Logic
2001-11-27 3:49 ` Sean Elble
2001-11-27 3:56 ` Doug Ledford
2001-11-27 4:00 ` Sean Elble
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-27 9:56 willy tarreau
2001-11-27 10:57 ` Heinz Diehl
2001-11-28 0:33 Torrey Hoffman
2001-11-28 0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 18:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 19:38 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 1:31 Dieter Nützel
2001-11-28 2:13 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 2:34 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-28 2:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 20:21 ` Roger Larsson
2001-11-28 3:53 ` Dieter Nützel
[not found] ` <200111280353.fAS3rEB05638@zero.tech9.net>
2001-11-28 4:14 ` Robert Love
2001-11-28 18:56 Torrey Hoffman
2001-11-28 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 19:42 Torrey Hoffman
2001-11-28 20:51 ` Dieter Nützel
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