Re: [patch 2/2]block: recursive merge requests

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Dec 16 2011 - 15:16:17 EST


On 2011-12-16 20:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:52:43AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
>> With recursive merge below, the workload throughput gets improved 20%
>> and context switch drops 60%.
>
> What workload and what filesystem?

It shouldn't really matter for the quoted case, where you have 2
processes issuing interleaved reads.

--
Jens Axboe

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