RE: Default cache_hot_time value back to 10ms

From: Chen, Kenneth W
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 14:32:40 EST


Andrew Morton wrote on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:51 PM
> > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'd say it is probably too low level to be a useful tunable (although
> > for testing I guess so... but then you could have *lots* of parameters
> > tunable).
>
> This tunable caused an 11% performance difference in (I assume) TPCx.
> That's a big deal, and people will want to diddle it.
>
> If one number works optimally for all machines and workloads then fine.
>
> But yes, avoiding a tunable would be nice, but we need a tunable to work
> out whether we can avoid making it tunable ;)
>
> Not that I'm soliciting patches or anything. I'll duck this one for now.

Andrew, can I safely interpret this response as you are OK with having
cache_hot_time set to 10 ms for now? And you will merge this change for
2.6.9? I think Ingo and Nick are both OK with that change as well. Thanks.

- Ken


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