Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.68-mm3 with contest

Ed Tomlinson (tomlins@cam.org)
Thu, 01 May 2003 07:52:20 -0400


Andrew Morton wrote:

> Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>>
>> All the io-write based loads were affected.
>
> Yup. Mainly because the large queue increases truncate latencies.

Are there loads that do benefit from large queues? If so, does it make
sense to use truncate impact (something like a decaying average of truncate
time per interval) to control the size of the queues on the fly?

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Ed Tomlinson
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