linux-kernel - Re: Page Cache writeback too slow, SSD/noop scheduler/ext2

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Message-ID: <C5F7F0FE.DED5%jos@hyves.nl>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:10:38 +0200
From:	Jos Houtman <jos@...es.nl>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
CC:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <hch@...radead.org>,
	<linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Page Cache writeback too slow,   SSD/noop scheduler/ext2


>> There another question I have: does the writeback go through the io
>> scheduler? Because no matter the io scheduler or the tuning done, the
>> writeback algorithm totally starves the reads.
> 
> I noticed this annoying writes-starve-reads problem too. I'll look into it.

Thanks
 
> 
>> Is there anything I can do about this behaviour by creating a better
>> interleaving of the reads and writes?
> 
> I guess it should be handled in the generic block io layer.  Once we
> solved the writes-starve-reads problem, the bursty-writeback behavior
> becomes a no-problem for SSD.

Yeah this was the part where I figured the io-schedulers kicked in, but
obviously I was wrong :P.

If I can do anything more to help this along, let me know.


Thanks

Jos



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