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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:26:05 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: ll_rw_block/submit_bh and request limits
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 06:34:01PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Any reason why you don't have a lower wake-up limit for the queue?

The watermark diff looked too high (it's 128M in current Linus's tree), but it's
probably a good idea to resurrect it with a max difference of a few full sized
requests (1/2mbytes).

> Do you mind if I do some testing with this patch and fold it in,
> possibly?

Go ahead, thanks,
Andrea
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