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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: queue_nr_requests needs to be selective
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:23:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C800D66.F613BBAA@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020301132254.A11528@vger.timpanogas.org> <3C7FE7DD.98121E87@zip.com.au>, <3C7FE7DD.98121E87@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:43:09PM -0800 <20020301162016.A12413@vger.timpanogas.org>

"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> 
> The issue here is that it sleeps too much
> and what's really happening and that we are forcing 8 disk drives
> toshare 64/128 request buffers rather than provide each physical disk
> with what it really needs.

OK.  So would it suffice to make queue_nr_requests an argument to
a new blk_init_queue()?

-	blk_init_queue(q, sci_request);
+	blk_init_queue_ng(q, sci_request, 1024);



-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-01 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-01 20:22 queue_nr_requests needs to be selective Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-01 20:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-01 21:03   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-01 23:22     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-01 23:20   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-01 23:23     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-03-02  0:27       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-02  0:49         ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-02  2:16           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-02  3:50             ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-02  4:34               ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-02  7:33               ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-02  9:10               ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-02  9:22                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-04  9:09                   ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-02  0:51 ` Mike Anderson
2002-03-02  4:39   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-02  5:59     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-02  6:01       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-02  6:16         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-04  7:16       ` Mike Anderson
2002-03-04 17:39         ` Jeff V. Merkey

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