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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Charles Samuels <charles@cariden.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Queuing of disk writes
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:39:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110401213917.1bebfa5f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104011334.24182.charles@cariden.com>

> I've seen this on ext3, ext4, and XFS. Reiser3 not so much. I've also 
> convinced my users to use write-backed cache. They're Enterprise customers and 
> have loads of money to spend on hardware, such as Warp Cores.

ext3 certainly suffers badly from it, that is known.

> > The ultima answer is probably an SSD of course 8)
> Well, that would solve the throughput, but it doesn't solve the blocking!

Best place to go might be linux-fsdevel - especially if you can generate
a simulation of the problem workload (ie one that just does the I/O
patterns)


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-01 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-01 19:59 Charles Samuels
2011-04-01 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-01 20:34   ` Charles Samuels
2011-04-01 20:39     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-04-04  2:02 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-04 17:50   ` Charles Samuels
2011-04-04 17:54     ` david
2011-04-05 19:37     ` Ted Ts'o

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