From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <1186575947.3106.23.camel@castor.rsk.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 08 Aug 2007 15:54:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1186575947.3106.23.camel@castor.rsk.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: richard kennedy Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: richard kennedy writes: > > This is on a standard desktop machine so there are lots of other > processes running on it, and although there is a degree of variability > in the numbers,they are very repeatable and your patch always out > performs the stock mm2. > looks good to me iirc the goal of this is less to get better performance, but to avoid long user visible latencies. Of course if it's faster it's great too, but that's only secondary. -Andi -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org