From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cache queue_congestion_on/off_threshold
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:44:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040510144454.GH14403@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <409F9510.9050001@yahoo.com.au>
On Tue, May 11 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Fri, May 07 2004, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>Jens Axboe wrote on Friday, May 07, 2004 2:39 AM
> >>>
> >>>On Thu, May 06 2004, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>(3) can we allocate request structure up front in __make_request?
> >>>> For I/O that cannot be merged, the elevator code executes twice
> >>>> in __make_request.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Actually, with the good working batching we might get away with killing
> >>>freereq completely. Have you tested that (if not, could you?)
> >>
> >>Sorry, I'm clueless on "good working batching". If you could please give
> >>me some pointers, I will definitely test it.
> >
> >
> >Something like this.
> >
>
> While we're doing that can we drop the GFP_ATOMIC allocation
> completely?
Thought the same thing. But lets stick to single item tests first, then
we can kill that double allocation after.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-10 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 22:12 Cache queue_congestion_on/off_threshold Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-06 6:20 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-06 6:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-06 6:43 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-06 20:30 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-07 3:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-07 9:35 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-06 20:29 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-07 9:39 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-07 22:00 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-10 14:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-10 14:43 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-10 14:44 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-05-11 3:22 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-12 5:32 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-12 7:05 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-12 13:48 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-12 14:22 ` Jens Axboe
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