Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Jan 18, 2008 3:00 PM, Mike Snitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 12:46 PM, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Mel Gorman wrote: Right, and this is consistent with other complaints about the PFN of the page mattering to some hardware. I

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Snitzer
you share any tuning you may have done to get AACRAID to where it is for you right now? regards, Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ext4 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Jan 17, 2008 8:52 AM, Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mike Snitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo Molnar [EMAIL

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-16 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Jan 16, 2008 9:15 AM, Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mike Snitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Snitzer
patchset? regards, Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ext4 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread mike
On 8/29/07, Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of people whispering zfs in my virtual ear these days, and at the same time I have an irrational attachment to xfs based entirely on its lack of the 32000 subdirectory limit. I'm not afraid of ext4's newness, since really a

Re: fallocate support for bitmap-based files

2007-07-06 Thread Mike Waychison
Valerie Henson wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:07:25PM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote: Relying on (a tweaked) reservations code is also somewhat limitting at this stage given that reservations are lost on close(fd). Unless we change the lifetime of the reservations (maybe for the lifetime

Re: fallocate support for bitmap-based files

2007-07-06 Thread Mike Waychison
Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 10:13 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Guys, Mike and Sreenivasa at google are looking into implementing fallocate() on ext2. Of course, any such implementation could and should also be portable

Re: fallocate support for bitmap-based files

2007-06-29 Thread Mike Waychison
Dave Kleikamp wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Guys, Mike and Sreenivasa at google are looking into implementing fallocate() on ext2. Of course, any such implementation could and should also be portable to ext3 and ext4 bitmapped files. I believe that Sreenivasa

Re: fallocate support for bitmap-based files

2007-06-29 Thread Mike Waychison
Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:55:25 -0400 Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Guys, Mike and Sreenivasa at google are looking into implementing fallocate() on ext2. Of course, any such implementation could

Re: fallocate support for bitmap-based files

2007-06-29 Thread Mike Waychison
thoughts on providing ext3 non-journal mode? We could benefit from several of the additions to ext3 that aren't available in ext2 and disabling journalling there sounds much more feasible for us instead of trying to backport each ext3 component to ext2. Mike Waychison That said, what

Re: [ext3][kernels = 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

2007-04-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 01:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:59:27 +0200 Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, As subject states, my GUI is going away for extended periods of time when my very full and likely highly fragmented (how to find out

Re: [ext3][kernels = 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

2007-04-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
for ( ; ; ) pwrite(fd, , 1, 0); would permanently livelock the fs. I fixed that, but it was six years ago, and perhaps we later unfixed it. Well, box doesn't seem the least bit upset after quite a while now, so I guess it didn't get unfixed. -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [ext3][kernels = 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

2007-04-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 13:31 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: I believe Alex has a patch to have it checkpoint much smaller chunks to the fs. I wouldn't be averse to test driving such a patch (understatement). You have a pointer? -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line