From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>, "" <andrea@suse.de>,
"" <ckolivas@yahoo.com.au>, "" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"" <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest]
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 02:47:19 -0200 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50L.0302100245310.12742-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030209203343.06608eb3.akpm@digeo.com>
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
> >
> > note that issuing a fsync should change all pending writes to 'syncronous'
> > as should writes to any partition mounted with the sync option, or writes
> > to a directory with the S flag set.
>
> We know, at I/O submission time, whether a write is to be waited upon.
> That's in writeback_control.sync_mode.
An fsync might change already submitted asynchronous writes
into synchronous writes, but this is not something I'm going
to lose sleep over. ;)
> That, combined with an assumption that "all reads are synchronous" would
> allow the outgoing BIOs to be appropriately tagged.
>
> It's still approximate.
Sounds like a good enough approximation to me.
Rik
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Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-09 13:30 [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest Con Kolivas
2003-02-09 14:46 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 3:13 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 3:52 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 4:44 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 5:15 ` usbaudio.c 2.5.59 John
2003-02-10 7:26 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:43 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 3:42 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 4:15 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 4:19 ` David Lang
2003-02-10 4:29 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 7:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 4:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 4:47 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-02-10 7:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 4:51 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10 4:58 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 5:10 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10 6:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-10 6:31 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10 7:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:41 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 8:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 8:19 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 8:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 9:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 9:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 10:07 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 10:40 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:24 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:45 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:11 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:36 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 13:26 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 11:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:53 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:14 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:12 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 12:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:27 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:34 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:55 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 13:30 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-11 19:13 ` Rod Van Meter
2003-02-10 12:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:17 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:58 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 13:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 20:14 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 13:19 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 14:49 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2 Giuliano Pochini
2003-02-10 15:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:25 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 11:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 13:00 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 10:55 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:39 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 9:59 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:06 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 10:17 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:39 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 8:27 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 9:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 9:18 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 20:33 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-02-10 21:43 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 5:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 7:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 4:44 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 7:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:39 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 10:03 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2 Giuliano Pochini
2003-02-10 16:23 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-11 12:43 ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-11 14:28 ` Jason Lunz
2003-02-11 14:41 ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-11 17:17 ` Jason Lunz
2003-02-11 20:19 ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-10 16:47 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:01 ` Jens Axboe
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