From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261746AbTJ2ClB (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:41:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261750AbTJ2ClB (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:41:01 -0500 Received: from mail-03.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.35]:2956 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261746AbTJ2ClA (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:41:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9F28B8.9030807@cyberone.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:40:56 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Olien CC: cliff white , mhf@linuxmail.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test8/test9 io scheduler needs tuning? References: <200310261201.14719.mhf@linuxmail.org> <20031027145531.2eb01017.cliffw@osdl.org> <3F9DAF2C.8010308@cyberone.com.au> <20031028092612.68d1c80d.cliffw@osdl.org> <20031028211844.GA8285@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031028211844.GA8285@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Olien wrote: >Yes, it seems Nick's latest patch from 10/27, has helped reaim >considerably. > >The dbt2 workload still has a problem though. Mary ran this patch today, >with deadline and with as-iosched: > >2.6.0-test9, elevator=deadline 1644 NOTPM >2.6.0-test9, unpatched as-iosched 977 NOTPM >2.6.0-test9, as-iosched with as-fix.patch 980 NOTPM > >Higher NOTPM numbers are better. > OK, how does 2.6.0-test5 go on these tests?