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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:59:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <406720A7.1050501@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403282045.07246.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sunday 28 of March 2004 20:30, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>Making something user tunable is usually not the best idea, if you can
>>deduct these things automagically instead. So whether this is the best
>>idea, depends on which way you want to go.
> 
> 
> I think it's the best idea for now, long-term we are better with automagic.


Mostly agreed:

Like I mentioned in the last message, the IO scheduler and the VM should 
really just figure out request size and queue depth and such based on 
observation of device throughput and latency.  So I agree w/ automagic.

But the sysadmin should also be allowed to say "I don't care about 
latency" if he has gobs and gobs of memory and knows his configuration well.

I like generic tunables such as "laptop mode" or "low latency" or "high 
throughput".  These sorts of tunables should affect the "automagic" 
calculations.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-28 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-27 22:37 [PATCH] speed up SATA Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:04 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-27 23:11   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  7:23     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 15:37       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:32   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:36     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:40       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:13         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28  0:08           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 11:42       ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-27 23:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:44   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:47     ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:59       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:10         ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:31           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:35             ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:48               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:54                 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:08                   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 18:15                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:55                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29  8:09                         ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:41                           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 12:44                             ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:50                               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 13:05                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 13:08                                 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30  8:13                                   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-30 11:40                                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 17:19                                 ` Craig I. Hagan
2004-03-29 18:19                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:06                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:12                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-28 18:17                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:30                     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:30                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:45                         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:59                           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-28 20:32                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 20:45                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29  0:55                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29  4:02                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 13:04                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 19:45                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 11:09                                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 15:54                                       ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 16:20                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:05                                       ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 17:50                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:19                                           ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-29  4:29                               ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-03-29  7:32                                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-29  8:13                                 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 13:05                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29  4:31                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-29  4:57                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:52                       ` Nuno Silva
2004-03-28 20:02                         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:06     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:15       ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28  0:49         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  1:02           ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28  1:09             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 13:59               ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:29                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:31                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 13:51           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:24             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:36               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:54                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:50                   ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-02 10:11                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-02 16:11                   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 10:48                     ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-03 13:49                       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:40               ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:49                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:55                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:04                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:09                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:12                         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:54                           ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28  7:32       ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 20:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 21:16           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 21:26             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:08     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:38       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:45         ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:21       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:07   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28  0:21     ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28  4:40   ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28  6:56     ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 20:33       ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 20:59         ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29  1:30           ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-29  5:24             ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29 13:03               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 11:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-29 18:46   ` David Lang
2004-03-29 20:13     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30  5:55   ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-30 11:54 ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 13:07   ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 13:48     ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 13:49       ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 15:31   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 17:42   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31  9:12     ` Marc Bevand
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-31  5:47 Marcus Hartig
2004-03-31  6:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31 16:07   ` Marcus Hartig

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