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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


  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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