Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4.21-pre2 stalls out when running unixbench | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | 06 Jan 2003 13:23:55 +0000 |
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Hi,
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well personally I prefer slow-and-safe. But we could make 2.4 > do what 2.5 is doing - one pass through the superblocks to start > the syncs and a second pass to wait on them all.
The 2.5 approach has the problem that it can start queuing writeback for multiple fs'es on the same disk at the same time --- I wouldn't be surprised if it increases thrashing in that case. But I guess I'm not too concerned about sync() performance itself, as long as the in-kernel background writeback is being done sensibly.
> This is fragile stuff though....
Yep.
--Stephen
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