From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments (improved) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:37:28 -0700 Message-ID: <20071220223728.GM29690@parisc-linux.org> References: <20071213142935.47ff19d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4761B32A.3070201@rtr.ca> <4761BCB4.1060601@rtr.ca> <4761C8E4.2010900@rtr.ca> <4761CE88.9070406@rtr.ca> <20071213163726.3bb601fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4761D160.7060603@rtr.ca> <4761D279.6050500@rtr.ca> <20071214174236.GA28613@csn.ul.ie> <20071214181339.GW26334@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:53986 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753265AbXLTWha (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:37:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071214181339.GW26334@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Mark Lord , Andrew Morton , James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com, lkml@rtr.ca, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:13:40AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I'll send it to our DB team to see if this improves our numbers at all. It does, by approximately 0.67%. This is about double the margin of error, and a significant improvement. Thanks! -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."