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Message-ID: <20091222125532.GC604@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:55:32 +0100
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Steve Rago <sar@...-labs.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Trond.Myklebust@...app.com" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
"jens.axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFS workloads
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 13:25 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > I believe that if we had per-bdi dirty_background_ratio and set it low
> > for NFS's bdi,
>
> There's two things there I think:
> 1) bdi_background
> 2) different background ratios per bdi
Right.
> 1) could be 'trivially' done much like we do bdi_dirty in
> get_dirty_limits().
>
> 2) I'm not at all convinced we want to go there.
Yeah. Doing 1) and playing with bdi->min_ratio and bdi->max_ratio should
be the first thing we should try...
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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