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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:25:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's 
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Okay I now have to create TCQ for ATA becasue I am not going to lose again
now that I am winning ;-)

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

> 
> 
> On Friday, March 02, 2001 12:39:01 PM -0600 Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> [ file_fsync syncs all dirty buffers on the FS ]
> > 
> > So it looks like fsync is going to cost more for bigger devices. Given the
> > O_SYNC changes Stephen Tweedie did, couldnt fsync look more like this:
> > 
> >	 down(&inode->i_sem);
> >         filemap_fdatasync(ip->i_mapping);
> >         fsync_inode_buffers(ip);
> >         filemap_fdatawait(ip->i_mapping);
> >	 up(&inode->i_sem);
> > 
> 
> reiserfs might need to trigger a commit on fsync, so the fs specific fsync
> op needs to be called.  But, you should not need to call file_fsync in the
> XFS fsync call (check out ext2's)
> 
> For why ide is beating scsi in this benchmark...make sure tagged queueing
> is on (or increase the queue length?).  For the xlog.c test posted, I would
> expect scsi to get faster than ide as the size of the write increases.
> 
> -chris
> 
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