linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8][RFC] IO latency/throughput fixes

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Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:10:54 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8][RFC] IO latency/throughput fixes

On Mon, Apr 06 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > This is a set of patches that I worked on today in the hopes
> > of furthering the latency goals and at least fixing some of
> > the write regression with fwrite + fsync that current -git
> > is suffering from.
> 
> Goodie. Let's just do this. After all, right now we would otherwise have 
> to revert the other changes as being a regression, and I absolutely _love_ 
> the fact that we're actually finally getting somewhere on this fsync 
> latency issue that has been with us for so long.

Agree, it's been nagging for some time...

> Jens - I can just apply this queue (I want to test it out anyway), or if 
> you prefer I can pull from you. Just tell me.

Whatever you want, if you want to pull instead of manually applying,
it's:

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git blk-latency

-- 
Jens Axboe

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