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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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