Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:18:27 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue |
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:03:03AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On September 6, 2001 02:32 pm, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Two words: "IO clustering". > > > > Yes, *after* the IO queue is fully loaded that makes sense. Leaving it > > partly or fully idle while waiting for it to load up makes no sense at all. > > > > IO clustering will happen naturally after the queue loads up. > > Exactly, so we need to give the queue some time to load > up, right ?
Just use two limits: * Time: After some time (say two seconds), we can always afford to write it out * Queue filling: After it has a certain size, it's worth doing a writing.
Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, DE SCSI, Security [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |