From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, rwheeler@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve jbd fsync batching
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:44:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081028144401.07b7546d@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028213805.GC3184@webber.adilger.int>
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:05 -0600
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2008 16:16 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep
> > longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was
> > requested by Andrew.
>
> Is there a particular reason why 1 jiffie is considered the "right
> amount" of time to sleep, given this is a kernel config parameter and
> has nothing to do with the storage? Considering a seek time in the
> range of ~10ms this would only be right for HZ=100 and the wait would
well... my disk does a 50 usec seek time or so.. so I don't mind ;-)
in fact it sounds awefully long to me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-28 20:16 [PATCH] improve jbd fsync batching Josef Bacik
2008-10-28 21:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-10-28 21:33 ` Josef Bacik
2008-10-28 21:44 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-10-28 21:56 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-11-03 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:24 ` Josef Bacik
2008-11-03 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-04 15:41 ` Josef Bacik
2008-11-03 22:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-04 5:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-11-04 9:12 ` Andrew Morton
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