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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Lawrence Manning <lawrence@aslak.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: Basic testing shows 2.3.99-pre9-3 bad, pre9-2 good
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:11:21 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005211609170.9939-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005211837310.627-100000@aslak.demon.co.uk>

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Lawrence Manning wrote:

> That's my observation anyway.  I did some dd and bonnie tests
> and got abismal results :-( Machine unusable during dd write
> etc.  pre9-2 on the other hand is close to being as smooth as,
> say, 2.3.51.  What happened? ;)

OK, I guess this means shrink_mmap() should not wait on
*every* locked buffer it runs into ;)

This will destroy both latency (we end up waiting for a
*lot* of buffers) and throughput (waiting on buffers could
interfere with request sorting if we're unlucky).

> I also should chip in to say that 2.2.15 is abit sick IO wise
> for me too.

I'm working on it :)

regards,

Rik
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       reply	other threads:[~2000-05-21 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005211837310.627-100000@aslak.demon.co.uk>
2000-05-21 19:11 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-05-21 19:17   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-21 19:32     ` Quintela Carreira Juan J.

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