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At 05:35 PM 2/15/2003 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 15 2003, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > >I gave this a burn, and under hefty load it seems to provide a bit of
> > >anti-thrash benefit.
> >
> > Judging from your log, it ends up stalling kswapd and
> > dramatically increases the number of times that normal
> > processes need to go into the pageout code.
>
>With 30 odds processes, it doesn't take a whole lot for one process to
>have its share of requests eaten.
>
> > If this provides an anti-thrashing benefit, something's
> > wrong with the VM in 2.5 ;)
>
>It's not a vm problem. But it is a problem if kswapd + pdflush can
>consume the entire request pool, stalling real user processes.
>
>Mike, please retry the test with more requests available. CFQ does not
>rely on request queue length for fairness. Just changes:
>
> (queue_nr_requests > 128)
> queue_nr_requests = 128;
>
>to
>
> (queue_nr_requests > 512)
> queue_nr_requests = 512;
>
>in ll_rw_blk.c:blk_dev_init() and see how that runs.
Results attached. 512 comes out to be 240 on this box (128MB). I also did
a burn with it hardwired to 512 on GP. Throughput numbers cut since
there's all within expected jitter.
-Mike
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