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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:48:02 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.{18,19{-ck9},20rc1{-aa1}} with contest
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:09:20PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> latency view point. This is also why the 2.5 deadline io scheduler is
> far superior in this area.

going in function of time is even better of course, but just assuming
bytes to be a linear function of time would be a good start, it depends
if you want to backport the deadline I/O scheduler to 2.4 or not. I
think going in terms of bytes would be simpler for 2.4. We're going to
use 2.4 for at least one more year in some production environment, so I
think it could make sense to address this, at least to be a function of
bytes if not of time.

Andrea
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