Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262196AbTERUvn (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2003 16:51:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbTERUvn (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2003 16:51:43 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:3955 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262196AbTERUvm (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2003 16:51:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 14:06:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Felix von Leitner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: need better I/O scheduler for bulk file serving Message-Id: <20030518140642.64c7d619.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030518195913.GA19275@codeblau.de> References: <20030518195913.GA19275@codeblau.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 May 2003 21:04:34.0173 (UTC) FILETIME=[154B02D0:01C31D81] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 476 Lines: 14 Felix von Leitner wrote: > > Larger read-ahead maybe? Or an anticipatory scheduler. You don't say what kernel you're using. We can set the readahead per-fd now, but the fcntl/ioctl hasn't been implemented. - 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/