linux-kernel - Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:21:10 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

On (26/04/07 20:39), Jens Axboe didst pronounce:
>> But don't push large pages as the only solution to larger ios, because
>> that is trivially not true.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Would it be fair to say that your approach and using large pages are not
> mutually exclusive solutions? It seems a lot of the debate here is
> assuming there is One And Only One Solution for larger ios.

I'd like to see how all the strategies mentioned thus far do in
conjunction.


-- wli
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