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On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:29:12PM -0800, Wim Coekaerts wrote: > > In 2.4 reaching 512k DMA units that helped a lot, but going past 512k > > didn't help in my measurements. 1M maybe these days is needed (as Jens > > suggested) but >1M still sounds overkill and I completely agree with > > Jens about that. > > at least 1Mb... more than 1mb (I doubt 32mb is really necessarily > useful) is nice for flushing contiguous journal data to disk. between > 1-8mb in one io. > > at least 1mb is good when you have to process massive amounts of data, > just read huge chunks of files, we tend to do 1mb. anyway, > as you said, at some point it's a bit overkill . I thinkg 1-8mb makes > sense. 1M certainly it's reasonable, though for 8M I've my doubt you can measure a throughput improvement, can you? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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