Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:10:04 +0100

On Fri, Jan 19 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Shouldn't it more depend on the bandwidth/latency of the IO device?

Not really they should just make sure that we don't lock down
all buffers. The low water mark is just to make sure we don't
wake up readers/writers right after having blocked them.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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