From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 22:08:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: Linux I/O performance in 2.3.99pre In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Zlatko Calusic Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 22 May 2000, Zlatko Calusic wrote: >Question for Andrea: is it possible to get back to the old speeds with >tha new elevator code, or is the speed drop unfortunate effect of the >"non-starvation" logic, and thus can't be cured? If you don't mind about I/O scheduling latencies then just use elvtune and set read/write latency to a big number (for example 1000000) and set the write-bomb logic value to 128. However in misc usage you care about responsiveness as well as latency so you probably don't want to disable the I/O scheduler completly. The write bomb logic defaul value is too strict probably and we may want to enlarge it to 32 or 64 to allow SCSI to be more effective. About the bad VM performance of the latest kernels please try again with pre9-1 + classzone-28. Andrea -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/