Re: Asynch I/O gets easily overloaded on 2.2.15 and 2.3.99

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 06:21:45 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:37:38AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> The culprit is probably the elevator code in ll_rw_blk, which uses
> a single linked list

The elevator doesn't sort buffers, it only sorts requests --- and
there is a strict limit on how many requests we can have outstanding
at once. I wouldn't have thought that elevator scalability would
have had anything to do with performance going downhill above 3000
buffers.

Only profiling will tell, of course...

--Stephen

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