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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:21:10 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
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Subject: Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3
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On (26/04/07 20:39), Jens Axboe didst pronounce:
>> But don't push large pages as the only solution to larger ios, because
>> that is trivially not true.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Would it be fair to say that your approach and using large pages are not
> mutually exclusive solutions? It seems a lot of the debate here is
> assuming there is One And Only One Solution for larger ios.

I'd like to see how all the strategies mentioned thus far do in
conjunction.


-- wli