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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 15:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 latency fixes
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Hmm. I can certainly see a very noticeable improvement.
.. and btw, just to put that into perspective - I ended up running with
that repeated 'dd+sync+rm' in the background for quite a while, and the
machine was in no way unusable. I don't think I saw a single "ooh, that
feels really dead" case with anticipatory, although I saw several "bad
stutter" cases.
Of course, with the whole "overwrite" case, things are really much
smoother, and I can hardly notice anything happening at all. Although I
_do_ get an occasional 200-600ms fsync hickup, and I can tell those very
clearly. But if that was the worst I'd ever see, I'd be a very happy
person. It's a good goal to have, I suspect.
Linus
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