public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS client latencies
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:50:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050331145015.GA4830@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050331143930.GA4032@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > So the overhead you are currently seeing should just be that of 
> > iterating through the list, locking said requests and adding them to 
> > our private list.
> 
> ah - cool! This was a 100 MB writeout so having 3.7 msecs to process 
> 20K+ pages is not unreasonable. To break the latency, can i just do a 
> simple lock-break, via the patch below?

with this patch the worst-case latency during NFS writeout is down to 40 
usecs (!).

Lee: i've uploaded the -42-05 release with this patch included - could 
you test it on your (no doubt more complex than mine) NFS setup?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-31 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 23:04 NFS client latencies Lee Revell
2005-03-29 23:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-29 23:32   ` Lee Revell
2005-03-29 23:34     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-29 23:37       ` Lee Revell
2005-03-30  8:02       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-30 14:11         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-30 14:20           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-30 19:53             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-30 14:26   ` Lee Revell
2005-03-30 14:50     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-30 19:50       ` Lee Revell
2005-03-30 19:56       ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-30 21:14         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31  2:26           ` Lee Revell
2005-03-31  2:39             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-31  2:47               ` Lee Revell
2005-03-31  3:48                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31  6:59                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31  7:15                     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31  7:18                     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-31  7:30                       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31 11:58                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 12:34                           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 13:58                             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31 14:32                               ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 14:39                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31 14:50                                   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-04-01  2:28                                     ` Lee Revell
2005-04-01  4:30                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-01 16:16                                         ` Orion Poplawski
2005-04-01 16:33                                           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-01 21:18                                         ` Lee Revell
2005-03-31 14:54                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31 15:00                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 14:54                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 14:58                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31 15:06                                       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 15:10                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31 16:00                                           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 15:10                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31  7:03                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31  7:39             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31  7:48               ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31  7:58                 ` Ingo Molnar

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20050331145015.GA4830@elte.hu \
    --to=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rlrevell@joe-job.com \
    --cc=trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox