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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: drop wb->list_lock during blk_finish_plug()
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:06:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxYQ4bfBbyG97W=Yrzf+tpezrvktBBb=DmFX1we2+mdrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150913231258.GS26895@dastard>

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> Really need to run these numbers on slower disks where block layer
> merging makes a difference to performance.

Yeah. We've seen plugging and io schedulers not make much difference
for high-performance flash (although I think the people who argued
that noop should generally be used for non-rotating media were wrong,
I think - the elevator ends up still being critical to merging, and
while merging isn't a life-or-death situation, it tends to still
help).

For rotating rust with nasty seek times, the plugging is likely to
make the biggest difference.

               Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-14 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-11 19:37 [PATCH] fs-writeback: drop wb->list_lock during blk_finish_plug() Chris Mason
2015-09-11 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 20:37   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 20:40     ` Josef Bacik
2015-09-11 21:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 22:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 23:16           ` Chris Mason
2015-09-11 23:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12  0:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12  2:15                 ` Chris Mason
2015-09-12  2:27                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12 23:00               ` Chris Mason
2015-09-12 23:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12 23:46                   ` Chris Mason
2015-09-13 13:12                     ` Chris Mason
2015-09-13 22:56                       ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-13 23:12                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-14 20:06                   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2015-09-16 15:16                     ` Chris Mason
2015-09-16 19:58                       ` Jan Kara
2015-09-16 20:00                         ` Chris Mason
2015-09-16 22:07                           ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17  0:37                             ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17  1:12                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17  2:14                                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17 19:39                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17 22:42                                     ` Chris Mason
2015-09-17 23:08                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17 23:56                                         ` Chris Mason
2015-09-18  0:37                                           ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-18  1:50                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18  5:40                                               ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-18  6:04                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18  6:06                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18 14:21                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2015-09-18 13:16                                                   ` Chris Mason
2015-09-18 14:23                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2015-09-18 15:32                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18 15:59                                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-18 16:02                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-18 16:12                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-28 14:47                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-28 16:08                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-29  7:55                                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-18 22:17                                                   ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-21  9:24                                                     ` Jan Kara
2015-09-21  9:24                                                       ` Jan Kara
2015-09-21 20:21                                                       ` Andrew Morton
2015-09-21 20:21                                                         ` Andrew Morton
2015-09-17 23:03                                   ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17 23:13                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17  3:48                               ` Chris Mason
2015-09-17  4:30                                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17 12:13                                   ` Chris Mason
2015-09-11 23:06         ` Chris Mason
2015-09-11 23:13           ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-09 15:23 Chris Mason
2015-09-11 18:49 ` Jens Axboe

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