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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: GrandMasterLee <masterlee@digitalroadkill.net>
Cc: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] max bomb segment tuning with read latency 2 patchin   contest
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:45:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF198EC.CDAB69D1@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1039242017.2855.26.camel@localhost

GrandMasterLee wrote:
> 
> ...
> One interesting thing about my current setup, with all scsi or FC disks,
> is that bomb never displays > 0.
> Example:
> 
> elvtune /dev/sdn yields:
> 
> /dev/sdn elevator ID            17
>         read_latency:           8192
>         write_latency:          16384
>         max_bomb_segments:      0
> 
> elvtune -b 6 /dev/sdn yields:
> 
> /dev/sdn elevator ID            17
>         read_latency:           8192
>         write_latency:          16384
>         max_bomb_segments:      0
> 
> Is it because I just do volume management at the hardware level and use
> whole disks? Or is that something else?

You need a patched kernel.  max_bomb_segments is some old thing
which isn't implemented any more.  But I reused it for something
completely different in the patch which Con is testing.  So I
wouldn't have to futz around with patching userspace apps.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-07  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-07  5:20 [BENCHMARK] max bomb segment tuning with read latency 2 patch in contest Con Kolivas
2002-12-07  5:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07  6:09   ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-07  6:14     ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07  6:15   ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-07  6:20   ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-07  6:45     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-07 13:29 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-10 10:50 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-12-10 10:55   ` Marc-Christian Petersen

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