Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:22:55 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> Sure. General parameters will be as follows (since I think we both have > access to these machines): > > - 4xXeon, 4GB memory, 3GB to be used for the ramdisk (enough for a > base install plus data files. > - data to/from the ram block device must be copied within the ram > block driver. > - the filesystem used must be ext2. optimisations to ext2 for > tweaks to the interface are permitted & encouraged. > > The main item I'm interested in is read (page cache cold)/synchronous > write performance for blocks from 256 bytes to 16MB in powers of two, > much like what I've done in testing the aio patches that shows where > improvement in latency is needed. Including a few other items on disk > like the timings of find/make -s dep/bonnie/dbench is probably to show > changes in throughput. Sound fair?
yep, sounds fair.
Ingo
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