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From: "Dan Maas" <dmaas@dcine.com>
To: "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: IO degradation in 2.4.17-pre2 vs. 2.4.16
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:37:55 -0500
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> > Yes, throughtput-only tests will have their numbers degradated with the
> > change applied on 2.4.16-pre2.
> > 
> > The whole thing is just about tradeoffs: Interactivity vs throughtput.
> > 
> > I'm not going to destroy interactivity for end users to get beatiful
> > dbench numbers.
>
> Latency is more of an issue for end user machines.

Time for CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_THROUGHPUT / CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_LATENCY ?

Dan

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