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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Volkov <avcp-lkmail@usa.net>,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: aio is unlikely
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:11:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464E168E.4000403@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070518140624.1a4db517.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, if you agree with Jeff's original point.
> 
> But I don't, actually.  Sure, on some machines+workloads, AIO is more
> common than sync IO.  But I expect that when we sum across all the
> machines+workloads in the world, sync IO is more common and is hence the
> case we should optimise for.
> 
> That's assuming that the unlikely() actually does something.


For the record, I agreed with your counter-point, and retract[ed?] my 
disagreement...

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-18 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200705092101.l49L1CF1023363@hera.kernel.org>
2007-05-09 22:06 ` aio is unlikely Jeff Garzik
2007-05-09 22:18   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 22:37     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 20:49     ` Alex Volkov
2007-05-18 21:06       ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-18 21:11         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-18 21:54         ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-18 22:12           ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-18 22:37             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-19  3:43               ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-19  3:50                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 21:30       ` Bernd Eckenfels

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