From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speed up the cdrw packet writing driver
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:57:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093384621.817.76.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040824144707.100e0cfd.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:47, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why is it not nice? If the VM has decided to create 400MB of dirty
> > data on a DVD+RW packet device, I don't see a problem with submitting
> > all bio's at the same time to the packet device.
>
> We also have a limit on the number of in-flight requests:
> /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests. It defaults to 128.
>
> Are you saying that your requests are so huge that each one has 1000 BIOs?
> That would be odd, for an IDE interface.
>
This defaults to 8192 on my (IDE) system. IIRC this value is larger if
48-bit addressing is in use (drive size > ~128GB). It does not seem
right to me that the size of your hard drive should dictate the amount
of I/O allowed to be in flight.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-24 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-14 19:13 [PATCH] Speed up the cdrw packet writing driver Peter Osterlund
2004-08-23 11:43 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-23 16:07 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-24 20:29 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-24 21:04 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-24 21:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-24 21:57 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-08-29 13:52 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-24 22:03 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-24 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-25 5:38 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-25 6:50 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-28 9:59 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-28 13:07 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-28 18:42 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-28 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 20:57 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-28 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 12:17 ` Peter Osterlund
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