Re: Terrible elevator performance in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i'm seeing similar problems. I think these problems started when the >elevator was rewritten, i believe it broke the proper unplugging of IO >devices. Does your performance problem get fixed by the attached >workaround? If

Re: Terrible elevator performance in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-14 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:40:12PM +1000, Robert Cohen wrote: > > > With kernel version 2.4.0-test1-ac22, I saw adequate performance. > > In 2.4.0-test1-ac22 there were a latency-driven elevator (the > one we have now since test2 can't provide good

Re: Terrible elevator performance in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:40:12PM +1000, Robert Cohen wrote: > What I believe is happening is that the elevator isn't merging the > requests properly. > I think that this may be the same problem reported here > http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.2/0389.html The merging issu

Re: Terrible elevator performance in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
i'm seeing similar problems. I think these problems started when the elevator was rewritten, i believe it broke the proper unplugging of IO devices. Does your performance problem get fixed by the attached workaround? Ingo On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Robert Cohen wrote: > For a while, Ive been

Terrible elevator performance in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-14 Thread Robert Cohen
For a while, Ive been seeing a performance problem with 2.4.0-test kernels. The benchmark I am using is an netatalk performance benchmark. But I think this is a general performance problem, not appletalk related. The benchmark has a varying number of clients reading and writing 30 Meg files. The s