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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.{18,19{-ck9},20rc1{-aa1}} with contest
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:52:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DCEC6F7.E5EC1147@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021110201045.GA4056@x30.random

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > Whether the IO is synchronous or asynchronous shouldn't matter much,
> 
> the fact the I/O is sync or async makes the whole difference. with sync
> reads the vmstat line in the read column will be always very small
> compared to the write column under a write flood. This can be fixed either:
> 
> 1) with hacks in the elevator ala read-latency that are not generic and
>    could decrease performance of other workloads

read-latency will only do the front-insertion if it was unable to find a
merge or insert on the tail-to-head search.

And the problem it desparately addresses is severe.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-10 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-09  2:00 [BENCHMARK] 2.4.{18,19{-ck9},20rc1{-aa1}} with contest Con Kolivas
2002-11-09  2:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-09  3:26   ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09  4:15     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-09  5:12       ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09 11:21         ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-09 13:09           ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09 13:35             ` Stephen Lord
2002-11-09 13:54             ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-09 21:12               ` Arador
2002-11-10  2:26                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-09 21:53               ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-10 10:09                 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 16:23                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  4:26                   ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-10 10:12               ` Kjartan Maraas
2002-11-10 10:17                 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 16:27                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-09 11:20       ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-10  2:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10  3:56   ` Matt Reppert
2002-11-10  9:58   ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-10 10:06     ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 16:21       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 16:20     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 19:32   ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-10 20:10     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 20:52       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-10 21:05         ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-11  1:54           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  4:03             ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  4:06               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  4:22                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  4:39                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  5:10                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  5:23                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  7:58                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-11 13:56                       ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-11 13:45             ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-11 14:09               ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-11 15:48                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11 15:43               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 20:56       ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  1:08         ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-09  3:44 Dieter Nützel
2002-11-09  3:54 ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09  4:02   ` Dieter Nützel

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