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SubjectRe: [PATCH] improve jbd fsync batching
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:05 -0600
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:

> On Oct 28, 2008 16:16 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep
> > longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was
> > requested by Andrew.
>
> Is there a particular reason why 1 jiffie is considered the "right
> amount" of time to sleep, given this is a kernel config parameter and
> has nothing to do with the storage? Considering a seek time in the
> range of ~10ms this would only be right for HZ=100 and the wait would

well... my disk does a 50 usec seek time or so.. so I don't mind ;-)

in fact it sounds awefully long to me.

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