Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764103AbXHHNAJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:00:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753512AbXHHM75 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:59:57 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34957 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755686AbXHHM74 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:59:56 -0400 To: richard kennedy Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <1186575947.3106.23.camel@castor.rsk.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 08 Aug 2007 15:54:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1186575947.3106.23.camel@castor.rsk.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 12 richard kennedy writes: > > This is on a standard desktop machine so there are lots of other > processes running on it, and although there is a degree of variability > in the numbers,they are very repeatable and your patch always out > performs the stock mm2. > looks good to me iirc the goal of this is less to get better performance, but to avoid long user visible latencies. Of course if it's faster it's great too, but that's only secondary. -Andi - 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/