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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC] BFQ I/O Scheduler
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:10:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080417071012.GP12774@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4806EACB.7040408@unimore.it>

On Thu, Apr 17 2008, Paolo Valente wrote:
> Pavel Machek ha scritto:
> >
> >>In the first type of tests, to achieve a higher throughput than CFQ
> >>(with the default 100 ms time slice), the maximum budget for BFQ
> >>had to be set to at least 4k sectors.  Using the same value for the
> >>    
> >
> >Hmm, 4k sectors is ~40 seconds worst case, no? That's quite long...
> >  
> Actually, in the worst case among our tests, the aggregate throughput 
> with 4k sectors was ~ 20 MB/s, hence the time for 4k sectors ~ 4k * 512 
> / 20M = 100 ms.

That's not worse case, it is pretty close to BEST case. Worst case is 4k
of sectors, with each being a 512b IO and causing a full stroke seek.
For that type of workload, even a modern sata hard drive will be doing
500kb/sec or less. That's rougly a thousand sectors per seconds, so ~4
seconds worst case for 4k sectors.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-17  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01 15:29 [RESEND][RFC] BFQ I/O Scheduler Fabio Checconi
2008-04-15  8:22 ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-15  9:11   ` Fabio Checconi
2008-04-15 12:42     ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-15 18:08       ` Fabio Checconi
2008-04-16  6:48   ` Paolo Valente
2008-04-18  1:26   ` Aaron Carroll
2008-04-16 18:44 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-17  6:14   ` Paolo Valente
2008-04-17  7:10     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-04-17  8:26       ` Paolo Valente
2008-04-17  8:30         ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-17  9:24           ` Paolo Valente
2008-04-17  9:27             ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-17 10:19               ` Aaron Carroll
2008-04-17 10:21                 ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-17 11:30               ` Fabio Checconi
2008-04-17 15:19           ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-17 15:47             ` Paolo Valente
2008-04-17 15:51               ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-17 18:12                 ` Paolo Valente
2008-04-17 23:44             ` Aaron Carroll
2008-04-17 10:24         ` Aaron Carroll
2008-04-17 11:14           ` Fabio Checconi
2008-04-17 12:14             ` Aaron Carroll
2008-04-17 13:54               ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-17 15:18               ` Paolo Valente
2008-04-17  8:48       ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-17  8:57         ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-17  9:14   ` Fabio Checconi

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