Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262963AbUFQUlL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:41:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262927AbUFQUlL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:41:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:29130 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262438AbUFQUlI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:41:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:38:42 -0400 From: Alan Cox To: "Salyzyn, Mark" , y@redhat.com Cc: Alan Cox , Clay Haapala , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: PATCH: Further aacraid work Message-ID: <20040617203842.GC8705@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189FD2407B@otce2k03.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189FD2407B@otce2k03.adaptec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:54:38PM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > And I might add, undoing the entropy to result in the descending page > list (but that is the forth time I've said this). > > I ran heavy sequential load overnight and continued to have this > characteristic when taking snapshots of command SG lists. The average SG > element size statistically was 4168 bytes. What do the stats look like with the patch Andrew Morton (I think) posted to reverse the page order from the allocator ? - 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/