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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mason@suse.com,
	andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] remove racy sync_page?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 08:55:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <447D923B.1080503@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060531061110.GB29535@suse.de>

Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> NCQ helps us with something we can never fix in software - the
> rotational latency. Ordering is only a small part of the picture.

Yup.  And it also helps reduce the command-to-command latencies.

I'm all for it, and have implemented tagged queuing for a variety
of device drivers over the past five years (TCQ & NCQ).  In every
case people say.. wow, I expected more of a difference than that,
while still noting the end result was faster under Linux than MS$.

Of course with artificial benchmarks, and the right firmware in
the right drives, it's easier to create and see a difference.
But I'm talking more life-like loads than just a multi-threaded
random seek generator.

Cheers

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-31 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-29  9:34 Nick Piggin
2006-05-29 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-30  0:08   ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30  1:32     ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-30  2:54       ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30  3:14         ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-30  4:13           ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30  9:05           ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-31 13:43             ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31 15:09               ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-31 15:22                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31 17:51                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-31 17:50               ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-30  4:20         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-30  5:07           ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30  5:21             ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30  6:12               ` Neil Brown
2006-05-30  7:10                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31  4:34                   ` Neil Brown
2006-05-30  8:24               ` Nikita Danilov
2006-05-30 17:55               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31  0:32                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31  0:56                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31  1:33                     ` Mark Lord
2006-05-31  6:11                       ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-31 12:55                         ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-05-31 13:02                           ` Jens Axboe
2006-06-01 13:19                           ` NCQ performance (was Re: [rfc][patch] remove racy sync_page?) Jens Axboe
2006-06-01 14:56                             ` Avi Kivity
2006-06-01 15:03                               ` Jens Axboe
2006-06-01 18:04                                 ` Jens Axboe
2006-06-05  5:30                                   ` Avi Kivity
2006-06-05  7:59                                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-31 12:31                     ` [rfc][patch] remove racy sync_page? Helge Hafting
2006-05-31 12:36                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-31 13:29                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31 13:41                       ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-31 13:54                         ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31 14:43                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 14:57                         ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31 15:13                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 15:09                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 18:13                           ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-31 18:26                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-30  5:36             ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30 18:31               ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-31  0:21                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-31  3:06                   ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-31 14:30                     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-31 17:56                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-30  5:51 ` Josef Sipek
2006-05-30  6:44   ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30  6:50     ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-30 13:12     ` Josef Sipek

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