linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: trying to understand READ_META, READ_SYNC, WRITE_SYNC & co
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:27:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100626092759.GA25896@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100626092556.GH29809@laptop>

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:25:56PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Biggest thing is multiple small files operations like on the same
> directory. Best case I measured back when doing AS io scheduler
> versus deadline was about 100x improvement on a uncached kernel
> grep workload when competing with a streaming writeout (the writeout
> probably ended up going somewhat slower naturally, but it is fairer).

As I mentioned below I absolutely see the case for reads.  A normal
grep basically is a dependent read kind of workload.  For for writes
it should either be O_SYNC-style workloads or batched I/O. 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-26  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21  9:48 trying to understand READ_META, READ_SYNC, WRITE_SYNC & co Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 10:04 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-21 11:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 18:56     ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-21 19:14       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 19:16         ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-21 19:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 21:36         ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-23 10:01           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-24  1:44             ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-25 11:03               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26  3:35                 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-26 10:05                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26 11:20                     ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-26 11:56                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 15:44                   ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-29  9:06                     ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-06-29 12:30                       ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-30 15:30                         ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-06-26  9:25                 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-26  9:27                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-26 10:10                     ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-26 10:16                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 18:52   ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-21 18:58     ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-21 19:08       ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-23  9:26       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 20:25   ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-23 10:02     ` Christoph Hellwig

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100626092759.GA25896@lst.de \
    --to=hch@lst.de \
    --cc=axboe@kernel.dk \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=npiggin@suse.de \
    --cc=vgoyal@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).