Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261216AbTEALjb (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 07:39:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261218AbTEALjb (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 07:39:31 -0400 Received: from tomts21-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.183]:47072 "EHLO tomts21-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261216AbTEALja (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 07:39:30 -0400 From: Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.68-mm3 with contest To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: tomlins@cam.org Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 07:52:20 -0400 References: Organization: me User-Agent: KNode/0.7.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: <20030501115221.A85BC11B0B@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 14 Andrew Morton wrote: > Con Kolivas 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? Comments Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/