On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Second version of this patch, incorporating Suparna's
> suggested simplification (the low-water mark was
> unnecessary).
>
> This patch is working well here. Hopefully it'll pop up
> in an rmap kernel soon.
>
> Bill Irwin has been doing some fairly extensive tuning
> and testing of this. Hopefully he'll come out with some
> numbers soon.
>
> I include the original description...
It seems the real gain (in latency) is caused by the FIFO behaviour.
That is, removing this hunk (against __get_request_wait())
- if (q->rq[rw].count < batch_requests)
+ if (q->rq[rw].count == 0)
schedule();
Would not make _much_ difference latency-wise. I'm I right or missing
something ?
Anyway, I would like to have the patch cleaned up for 2.4.19-pre (remove
the instrumentation stuff _and_ make it clear on the documentation that
READA requests are not being used in practice).
Thanks a lot for that, Andrew.
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