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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Patrick McLean <pmclean@cs.ubishops.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Interactivity improvements
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:41:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060278078.15243.71.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F3261A2.9000405@cs.ubishops.ca>

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 07:26, Patrick McLean wrote:

> Finally, the interactivity estimator seems to be quite a bit of code, 
> which certain people have no real useful (in servers for example) and I 
> would imagine that it does reduce throughput

Actually, it should improve I/O throughput. What it might hurt is
computational performance, but only at the expense of benefiting other
processes.

The reason it benefits throughput is that file I/O is definitely marked
interactive, and that results in file I/O being able to quickly wake up,
dispatch the I/O, and go back to sleep. Its the usual treatment given to
I/O, and it works.

	Robert Love



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-07 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-07 14:26 Interactivity improvements Patrick McLean
2003-08-07 15:24 ` Richard Curnow
2003-08-07 15:42   ` Patrick McLean
2003-08-07 18:33     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-07 20:48   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-07 21:26     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-08-07 23:05       ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-07 15:31 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-07 17:41 ` Robert Love [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-04 16:07 [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Con Kolivas
2003-08-05  2:20 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05  2:21   ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05  3:06     ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05  3:17       ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-06 18:48         ` Interactivity improvements Timothy Miller
2003-08-06 19:01           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-06 20:09           ` Helge Hafting
2003-08-06 21:15           ` Con Kolivas

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