From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: stop balance_dirty_pages doing too much work
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:10:33 +0300
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> The test case is random mmap writes to files that have been laid out
> sequentially. So it's all seeks. The target drive is an SSD disk though,
> so it doesn't matter a whole lot (it's a good SSD).

Oh, SSD.  What numbers do you get for normal disks?


Thanks!

--
Al

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