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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfq: allow dispatching of both sync and async I/O together
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:27:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49k4prf8gn.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100622131853.GB13153@redhat.com> (Vivek Goyal's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:18:53 -0400")

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:45:54AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:22:08PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> > So looks like firefox launching times have not changed much in the presence
>> > of heavy buffered writting going on root disk. I will do more testing tomorrow.
>> 
>> Was the buffered writer actually hitting disk?  How much memory is on
>> your system?
>
> I have 4G of memory in the system. I used to wait for 10-15 seconds after
> writer has started and then launch firefox to make sure writes are actually
> hitting the disk.
>
> Are you seeing different results in your testing?

No, I hadn't got to testing this yet.  I was just making sure the test
procedure was sane (and it is).  Thanks for doing the testing!

-Jeff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-22 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21 19:49 [PATCH 0/2] cfq: fixes to bring cfq in line with deadline performance for mid- to high-end storage Jeff Moyer
2010-06-21 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] cfq: always return false from should_idle if slice_idle is set to zero Jeff Moyer
2010-06-21 20:00   ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 18:41     ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-28 18:50       ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 18:54         ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-21 23:05   ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-21 19:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] cfq: allow dispatching of both sync and async I/O together Jeff Moyer
2010-06-21 19:59   ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-21 20:05     ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-21 23:22     ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-22  4:07       ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-22 12:45         ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-22 13:18           ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-22 13:21             ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-22 14:24               ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-22 14:27             ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2010-06-28 18:40         ` Jeff Moyer
2010-06-28 18:48           ` Jens Axboe

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