Re: Linux 2.6.29

David Rees
2009-03-25T18:00:37Z

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:03:53 -0700
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
>> I remember early in the 2.6.x days there was a lot of focus on making
>> interactive performance good, and for a long time it was.  But this
>> I/O problem has been around for a *long* time now... What happened?
>> Do not many people run into this daily?  Do all the filesystem
>> hackers run with special mount options to mitigate the problem?
>
> the people that care use my kernel patch on ext3 ;-)
> (or the userland equivalent tweak in /etc/rc.local)

There's a couple of comments in bug 12309 [1] which confirm that
increasing the priority of kjournald reduces latency significantly
since I posted your tweak there yesterday. I hope to do some testing
today on my systems to see if it helps on them, too.

-Dave

[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309