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Message-ID: <1329448660.2892.42.camel@pasglop>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:17:40 +1100
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Liu Qiang-B32616 <B32616@...escale.com>
Cc: "jgarzik@...ox.com" <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 RESEND] fsl-sata: I/O load balancing
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 01:54 +0000, Liu Qiang-B32616 wrote:
> The default will be set in a common interface fsl_sata_set_irq_coalescing when
> initialize the controller. This interface will check the range of intr count
> and ticks and make sure the values are reasonably.
Allright, but the current defaults are basically no coalescing right ?
> It's hard to find a aggressive value to adapt all scenarios, so I use echo to adjust
> the value. I remember P5020 have some performance issue, I will check it.
> BTW, which filesystem do you use? Ext2 is lower than ext4 because metadata is
> continuously wrote to disk. You can try ext4 or xfs.
ext3 at the moment, I plan to switch to ext4 when I finish that fsck
pass which is taking hours... I am not aware of the 5020 performance
issues, is this something documented and/or fixable ?
Cheers,
Ben.
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