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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: piotr@larroy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CFQ iosched praise: good perfomance and better latency
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:57:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040418225752.56d10695.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40835F4E.5000308@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Pedro Larroy wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've been trying CFQ ioscheduler in my software raid5 with nice results,
> > I've observed that a latency pattern still exists, just as in the
> > anticipatory ioscheduler, but those spikes are now much lower (from
> > 6ms with AS to 2ms with CFQ as seen in the bottom of
> > http://pedro.larroy.com/devel/iolat/analisys/),
> > plus apps seems to get a fair amount of io so they don't get starved.
> > 
> > Seems a good choice for io loaded boxes. Thanks Jens Axboe.
> > 
> 
> Although AS isn't at its best when behind raid devices (it should
> probably be in front of them), you could be seeing some problem
> with the raid code.
> 
> I'd be interested to see what the graph looks like with elevator=noop

This isn't a very surprising result, is it?  AS throws away latency to gain
throughput.  Pedro is measuring latency...

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-19  0:56 Pedro Larroy
2004-04-19  5:10 ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-19  5:57   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-19  6:12     ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-19 11:32       ` Pedro Larroy
2004-04-19 11:53         ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-19 23:59           ` Pedro Larroy
2004-04-19 13:27   ` Daniel Pittman

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