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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:59:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070728005920.GA31622@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46AA8E57.8010105@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 08:31:19PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> I think Volanomark is being pretty stupid, and deserves to run slowly, but 

Indeed, any app doing what volanomark does is pretty inefficient.

But this is not the point. I/O schedulers are pluggable to help for
inefficient apps too. If apps would be extremely smart they would all
use async-io for their reads, and there wouldn't be the need of
anticipatory scheduler just for an example.

The fact is there's no technical explanation for which we're forbidden
to be able to choose between CFS and O(1) at least at boot time.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-28  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27 22:01 Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS Tim Chen
2007-07-28  0:31 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28  0:59   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2007-07-28  3:43     ` pluggable scheduler flamewar thread (was Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS) Chris Snook
2007-07-28  5:01       ` pluggable scheduler " Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-28  6:51         ` Chris Snook
2007-07-30 18:49           ` Tim Chen
2007-07-30 21:07             ` Chris Snook
2007-07-30 21:24               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-28 13:28   ` Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS Dmitry Adamushko
2007-07-28  2:47 ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-28 20:26   ` Dave Jones
2007-07-28 12:36 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2007-07-28 18:55   ` David Schwartz
2007-07-29 17:37 ` [patch] sched: yield debugging Ingo Molnar
2007-07-30 18:10   ` Tim Chen
2007-07-31 20:33     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-01 20:53       ` Tim Chen

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