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From: Islam Amer <pharon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: iosched (was Re: Full of surprises - A reiser4 story from userland)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:31:40 +0300
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> The performance boost for any of the provided iosched schemes can be
> positive, negative, imaginary, or complex(*), depending on the actual wor=
kload of
> the system, and what reference patterns it generates.
>
I assumed published benchmarks are conducted under strictly controlled
conditions.

> (*) I suspect that (benchmarks being benchmarks) the chance that the boos=
t
> be totally real, with no imaginary component, is very slim.  And everybod=
y
> knows that most benchmark results are complex to interpret.. :)

Then this scheduler is doing a very good job at creating an illusion
of enhanced performance.
Thanks for the reply :)