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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Implement swap prefetching tweaks
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:06:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142319979.8629.1.camel@homer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142319048.13256.103.camel@mindpipe>

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 01:50 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 07:40 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >> > 
> > > echo 64 > /sys/block/hd*/queue/max_sectors_kb
> > > 
> > > There is basically a straight linear relation between whatever you set
> > > this to and the maximum scheduling latency you see.  It was developed to
> > > solve the exact problem you are describing.
> > 
> > <head-scratching>
> > 
> > Is it possible that you mean pci latency?  I'm unable to measure any
> > scheduling latency > 5ms while pushing IO for all my little Barracuda
> > disk is worth.
> 
> It's only a big problem if LBA48 is in use which allows 32MB of IO to be
> in flight at once, this depends on the size of the drive.

This is a 120G drive.

> 
> What does that value default to?

512.

> >   I _can_ generate mp3 player audio dropout though,
> > despite mp3 files living on a separate drive/controller.
> > 
> 
> Does this go away if you run the mp3 player at nice -20?

Nope.

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-14  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-10  9:54 Con Kolivas
2006-03-10 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-10 23:11   ` Peter Williams
2006-03-11  4:18     ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  4:28       ` Peter Williams
2006-03-11  4:34         ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  5:34           ` Peter Williams
2006-03-11  5:04       ` [ck] " Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2006-03-11  5:21         ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  5:46       ` Peter Williams
2006-03-11  3:50   ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  5:33     ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-11  5:50       ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  5:58         ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  6:11           ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-11  6:00         ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-11  6:05           ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-11  7:20             ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  7:44               ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-11  8:16                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-11  8:22                   ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-11  7:24           ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-11  7:51             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-11  8:15               ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-12  4:54               ` Lee Revell
2006-03-12  5:27                 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-12  8:36                   ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-14  6:40                 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-14  6:50                   ` Lee Revell
2006-03-14  7:06                     ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2006-03-14  8:44                       ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-14  8:05                     ` [ck] " Jens Axboe

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