Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:05:40 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: pre-2.3.7-1 fails compile |
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >i've just finished the patches that allow multiple (cached) writers to > >write into the pagecache. > > I was talking about the write(2) performances of only one writer. `cp > /dev/zero /tmp'. Probably they are better but the wait_on_buffer in > flushpage make me not sure of that. Also considering that waiting for I/O > completation for every flushpage means a very high scheduling rate during > writes. I still have to verify in practice these things though.
i have just rewritten flushpage (to fix a bug, not necesserily for performance) - could you wait for these initial things to settle down? These changes should show up Really Soon :)
-- mingo
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