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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAX_READAHEAD gives doubled throuput
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 04:08:17 +0200
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On Saturday 28 July 2001 03:40, Roger Larsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Got wondering why simultaneous streaming is so much slower than
> normal...
>
> Are there any reasons nowadays why we should not attempt to read
> ahead more than 31 pages at once?
>
> 31 pages equals 0.1 MB, it is read from the HD in 4 ms => very close
> to the average access times. Resulting in a maximum of half the
> possible speed.
>
> With this patch copy and diff throughput are increased from 14
> respective 11 MB/s to 27 and 28 !!!

Wheeeeee!  Out of interest, what are the numbers for 2.4.7 vs 
2.4.8-pre1 ?

--
Daniel
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