Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Bron Gondwana]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:23:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > 
> > > The problem being that unlike the ratio, there's no sane default value 
> > > that you can at least argue is not _entirely_ pointless.
> > 
> > Well, if the maximum time that someone wants to wait for an fsync() to
> > return is one second, and the RAID array can write 100MB/sec
> 
> How are you going to tell the kernel that the RAID array can write 
> 100MB/s?
> 
> The kernel has no idea.

Not at boot up, but after it's been using the RAID array for a little
while it could...

Bron (... imagining a tunable "max_fsync_wait_target_centisecs = 100" 
      which caused the kernel to notice how long flushes were taking
      and tune its buffer sizes to be approximately right over time )
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