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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: war <war@starband.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it normal for freezing while...
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:16:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0875DA.A54BC89E@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C085B04.50ABE0B5@starband.net> <3C0867A3.5119D2BC@zip.com.au> <3C087023.9683B8AF@starband.net>

war wrote:
> 
> Wow, responsiveness is wonderful with these patches.

yup.  Thanks for testing...

> Will they make it into 2.4.17, (ie: I've seen the -pre2 changelog, did
> you incorporate them into -pre2)?
> Even throughout the entire dd, it remained responsive
> (mouse/cursor/network/etc).

Well, this is a stable kernel, and the patch does adversely
affect overall throughput.

There are two changes to the elevator in that patch.  One
is a modest speedup for all workloads which, frankly, I'm
inclined to drop.   The other is the part which gives the
improved responsiveness.

Being a cautious chap, I think I'll submit that patch, with
the default setting to "off", so there is no change to default
kernel behaviour.   Then people can run `elvtune -b' to enable it.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-01  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-01  4:22 Is it normal for freezing while war
2001-12-01  5:16 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-01  5:52   ` war
2001-12-01  6:16     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-12-01  8:15       ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-01  8:26       ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01  9:02         ` Mike Fedyk

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