From: Olaf Weber <olaf@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, "MASON, CHRISTOPHER" <CHRIS.MASON@oracle.com>,
xfs mailing list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bump up nr_to_write in xfs_vm_writepage
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:37:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bzy8wj0bu72.fsf@fransum.emea.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090707101946.GB1934@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:19:46 -0400")
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:30AM +0200, Olaf Weber wrote:
>> If the nr_to_write calculation really yields a value that is too
>> small, shouldn't it be fixed elsewhere?
> In theory it should. But given the amazing feedback of the VM people
> on this I'd rather make sure we do get the full HW bandwith on large
> arrays instead of sucking badly and not just wait forever.
So how do you feel about making the fudge factor tunable? I don't
have a good sense myself of what the value should be, whether the
hard-coded 4 is good enough in general.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-07 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-02 21:29 Eric Sandeen
2009-07-07 9:07 ` Olaf Weber
2009-07-07 10:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-07 10:33 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-07 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-09 2:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-09 13:01 ` Chris Mason
2009-07-10 7:12 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-24 5:20 ` Felix Blyakher
2009-07-24 5:33 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-24 12:05 ` Chris Mason
2009-07-07 11:37 ` Olaf Weber [this message]
2009-07-07 14:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-07 15:17 ` Chris Mason
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