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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
	Grant Coady <grant_lkml@dodo.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Odd IDE performance drop 2.4 vs 2.6?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:09:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118675343.13773.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42AD92F2.7080108@yahoo.com.au>

On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 15:06, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Make sure you have pre-empt disabled and the antcipatory I/O scheduler
> > disabled. 
> > 
> I don't think that those could explain it.

Try it and see. The anticipatory I/O scheduler does horrible things to
my IDE streaming performance numbers and to swap performance. It tries
to merge I/O by delaying it which is deeply ungood when it comes to IDE
streaming even if its good for general I/O.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-13 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-13  4:03 Odd IDE performance drop 2.4 vs 2.6? Grant Coady
2005-06-13 10:43 ` Ondrej Zary
2005-06-13 13:39   ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 14:06     ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-13 15:09       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-06-13 17:01         ` Ondrej Zary
2005-06-13 20:25         ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-14  2:20         ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-15 19:15         ` Ondrej Zary
2005-06-17 12:40           ` Alan Cox
2005-06-17 13:43             ` Ondrej Zary
2005-06-13 18:13     ` Grant Coady

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