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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Addressing long-standing
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On 09/16/16 00:55, Paolo Valente wrote:
> Linux systems suffers from long-standing high-latency problems, at
> system and application level, related to I/O.

Hello Paolo,

Are you aware of Jens' throttled background buffered writeback work? If 
not, can you repeat your measurements against a kernel on which these 
patches have been applied? See also 
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg101391.html.

Thanks,

Bart.