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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling
Date: 22 Aug 2007 13:05:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p733aybzv6e.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187764638.6869.17.camel@hannibal>

"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
> 
> My system is a Core 2 Duo, 2GB, single SATA disk.

Hmm, I thought the patch was only supposed to make a real difference
if you have multiple devices? But you only got a single disk.   

At least that was the case  it was supposed to fix: starvation of fast 
devices from slow devices.

Ok perhaps the new adaptive dirty limits helps your single disk
a lot too. But your improvements seem to be more "collateral damage" @)

But if that was true it might be enough to just change the dirty limits
to get the same effect on your system. You might want to play with
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_*

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22  6:37 Jeffrey W. Baker
2007-08-22 11:05 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-22 11:09   ` Paolo Ornati
2007-08-22 12:47   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-04  9:37     ` Leroy van Logchem
2007-09-04 19:23       ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-09-06  9:50         ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-09-05  8:54     ` Martin Knoblauch

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