From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Joel.Becker@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WimMark I report for 2.5.65-mm2
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:29:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320082947.GM4990@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030320002050.44f13857.akpm@digeo.com>
On Thu, Mar 20 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > Besides, deadline is still the most solid choice.
>
> Deadline will always be the best choice for OLTP workloads. Or CFQ - it
> should perform the same.
>
> All this workload does is seeks all over the disk doing teeny synchronous
> I/O's. It is the worst-case for AS.
>
> What we are trying to do at present is to make AS not _too_ bad for these
> workloads so that people with mixed workloads or who are not familiar with
> kernel arcanery don't accidentally end up with something which is
> significantly slower than it should be.
>
> It is an interesting test case.
I understand that. A deadline run is still interesting if there are
regressions from -mm2 to -mm3, for example. If deadline shows the same
regression, it's likely not a newly introduced AS bug.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 23:28 WimMark I report for 2.5.65-mm2 Joel Becker
2003-03-20 1:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-20 0:38 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-20 0:55 ` Nick Piggin
2003-03-20 8:04 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-20 8:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-20 8:29 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-03-20 15:01 ` Nick Piggin
2003-03-20 18:32 ` Joel Becker
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