Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:15:54 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Skip I/O merges when disabled |
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> Not a good idea IMHO, it's much better with an explicit setting. That > way you don't introduce indeterministic behavior.
So you would be deterministically slower.
Another way to avoid this problem would be to keep the statistics per IO context, then the same run of a program would always get the same behaviour. Drawback is that if your non mergeable workload consists of lots of short running processes (like a shell script) the optimization wouldn't work. Not sure if it's really practical, but it would be an option.
I think in modern systems with caches etc. you typically have enough non quite deterministic and other surprising and hard to analyze behaviour anyways, so a little more doesn't make much difference.
-Andi
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