Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:39:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:39:08 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:13553 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:39:02 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:38:56 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel , Alan Cox , "Nathan G. Grennan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 Message-ID: <20011126203856.D26219@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Alan Cox , "Nathan G. Grennan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To:

<3C02E009.7C1F17C6@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C02E009.7C1F17C6@zip.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:36:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > The patch I sent puts read requests near the head of the request > queue, and to hell with aggregate throughput. It's tunable with > `elvtune -b'. And it fixes it. for i in `seq 9`; do elvtune -b $i /dev/hda; done -b doesn't seem to change the "max_bomb_segments". Does your patch fix this? Tested on 2.4.15-pre1. MF - 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/