Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:54:15 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] max-sectors-2.6.9-rc1-bk14-A0 |
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> Wasn't the move of the ide_lock grabbing enough to solve this problem > by itself?
yes and no. It does solve it for the specific case of the voluntary-preemption patches: there hardirqs can run in separate kernel threads which are preemptable (no HARDIRQ_OFFSET). In stock Linux hardirqs are not preemptable so the earlier dropping of ide_lock doesnt solve the latency.
so in the upstream kernel the only solution is to reduce the size of IO. (I'll push the hardirq patches later on too but their acceptance should not hinder people in achieving good latencies.) It can be useful for other reasons too to reduce IO, so why not? The patch certainly causes no overhead anywhere in the block layer and people are happy with it.
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