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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	reiser@namesys.com, jakob@unthought.net,
	david.lang@digitalinsight.com, riel@conectiva.com.br,
	ckolivas@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest]
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:53:27 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E4792B7.5030108@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030210034808.7441d611.akpm@digeo.com

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
>>It's the readahead in my tree that allows the reads to use the max scsi
>>command size. It has nothing to do with the max scsi command size
>>itself.
>>
>
>Oh bah.
>
>-               *max_ra++ = vm_max_readahead;
>+               *max_ra = ((128*4) >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)) - 1;
>
>
>Well of course that will get bigger bonnie numbers, for exactly the reasons
>I've explained.  It will seek between files after every 512k rather than
>after every 128k.
>
Though Andrea did say it is a "single threaded" streaming read.
That is what I can't understand. Movement of the disk head should
be exactly the same in either situation and 128K is not exactly
a pitiful request size - so it suggests a quirk somewhere. It
is not as if the disk has to be particularly smart or know a
lot about the data in order to optimise the head movement for
a load like this.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-10 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-09 13:30 [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest Con Kolivas
2003-02-09 14:46 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  3:13   ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10  3:52     ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10  4:44       ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10  5:15         ` usbaudio.c 2.5.59 John
2003-02-10  7:26         ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  7:43           ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10  3:42   ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10  4:15     ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10  4:19       ` David Lang
2003-02-10  4:29         ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10  7:20           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  4:33         ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10  4:47           ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10  7:31             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  4:51           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10  4:58             ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10  5:10               ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10  6:06                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-10  6:31                   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10  7:36               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  7:41                 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10  8:08                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  8:19                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10  8:56                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  9:09                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10  9:14                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 10:07                           ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:15                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 10:40                               ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:10                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:21                                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:31                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:24                                   ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:39                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:45                                       ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:00                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:11                                           ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:22                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:36                                               ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:47                                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 13:26                                           ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 11:48                                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:53                                         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-02-10 12:10                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:14                                             ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:26                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:12                                           ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 12:25                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:27                                             ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:30                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:34                                                 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:43                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:55                                                     ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 13:30                                             ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-11 19:13                                               ` Rod Van Meter
2003-02-10 12:09                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:17                                           ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:28                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:58                                           ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 13:18                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 20:14                                               ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 13:19                                             ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 14:49                                         ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2 Giuliano Pochini
2003-02-10 15:05                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:25                                   ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 11:42                                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 13:00                                       ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:48                             ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 10:55                               ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:21                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:33                                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:43                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:39                                 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10  9:59                       ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:06                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 10:17                           ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:39                           ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10  8:27                     ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10  9:02                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  9:18                         ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 20:33                         ` Kurt Garloff
2003-02-10 21:43                           ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10  5:01             ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10  7:34             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  4:44     ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10  7:31       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  7:17     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10  7:39       ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 10:03     ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2 Giuliano Pochini
2003-02-10 16:23   ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:49     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-11 12:43       ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-11 14:28         ` Jason Lunz
2003-02-11 14:41           ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-11 17:17             ` Jason Lunz
2003-02-11 20:19               ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-10 16:47   ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:01     ` Jens Axboe

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