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SubjectRe: Cache queue_congestion_on/off_threshold
On Tue, May 11 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Fri, May 07 2004, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>Jens Axboe wrote on Friday, May 07, 2004 2:39 AM
> >>>
> >>>On Thu, May 06 2004, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>(3) can we allocate request structure up front in __make_request?
> >>>> For I/O that cannot be merged, the elevator code executes twice
> >>>> in __make_request.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Actually, with the good working batching we might get away with killing
> >>>freereq completely. Have you tested that (if not, could you?)
> >>
> >>Sorry, I'm clueless on "good working batching". If you could please give
> >>me some pointers, I will definitely test it.
> >
> >
> >Something like this.
> >
>
> While we're doing that can we drop the GFP_ATOMIC allocation
> completely?

Thought the same thing. But lets stick to single item tests first, then
we can kill that double allocation after.

--
Jens Axboe

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