From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interl
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:57:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213015757.GC25499@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040212205503.GA13934@hh.idb.hist.no>
Helge Hafting wrote:
> Something similiar could be done for io niceness. If we run out of
> normal priority io, how about not issuing the low priority io
> right away. Anticipate there will be more high-priority io
> and wait for some idle time before letting low-priority
> requests through. And of course some maximum wait to prevent
> total starvation.
The problem is quite similar to scheduling for quality on a network
device. Once a packet has started going it, usually you cannot abort
the packet for a higher priority one.
I thought there was a CBQ I/O scheduling patch or such to offer some
kind of I/O niceness these days?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-11 19:04 ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interleaved writes Jon Burgess
2004-02-11 20:28 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-11 21:02 ` Michael Frank
2004-02-11 21:18 ` Diego Calleja
2004-02-12 2:00 ` Dave Olien
2004-02-12 2:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-12 9:42 ` ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interl Giuliano Pochini
2004-02-12 10:15 ` John Bradford
2004-02-12 10:27 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 17:05 ` Michael Frank
2004-02-12 17:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-12 20:55 ` Helge Hafting
2004-02-13 1:57 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-02-13 2:05 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 14:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-13 12:15 ` ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interleaved writes Jon Burgess
2004-02-12 10:40 ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-12 20:17 ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-12 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-12 20:20 ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-13 8:28 ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2004-02-16 17:51 ` Alex Zarochentsev
2004-02-16 20:03 ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-13 12:35 ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-14 15:00 ` Jon Burgess
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