Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:14:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:14:16 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:46822 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:14:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:10:44 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Jens Axboe Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , David Balazic , torvalds@transmeta.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's Message-ID: <20010307191044.M7453@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3AA53DC0.C6E2F308@uni-mb.si> <20010306213720.U2803@suse.de> <20010307135135.B3715@redhat.com> <20010307151241.E526@suse.de> <20010307150556.L7453@redhat.com> <20010307195152.C4653@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010307195152.C4653@suse.de>; from axboe@suse.de on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:51:52PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:51:52PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > My bigger concern is when the journalled fs has a log on a different > queue. For most fs'es, that's not an issue. The fs won't start writeback on the primary disk at all until the journal commit has been acknowledged as firm on disk. Certainly for ext3, synchronisation between the log and the primary disk is no big thing. What really hurts is writing to the log, where we have to wait for the log writes to complete before submitting the commit write (which is sequentially allocated just after the rest of the log blocks). Specifying a barrier on the commit block would allow us to keep the log device streaming, and the fs can deal with synchronising the primary disk quite happily by itself. Cheers, Stephen - 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/