Re: Time sliced CFQ io scheduler

Andrew Morton
2004-12-08T02:14:45Z

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> One hidden side effect of "as" is that by writing so slowly (and
> 64KiB/sec really is slow), it increases the time it will take for a
> dirty page to be flushed to disk

The 64k/sec only happens for direct-io, and those pages aren't dirty.