On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 07:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > It's really not that simple, if we go and do easy latency bits, then > > throughput drops 30% or more. > > Well, if we're talking 500-950% improvement vs 30% deprovement, I think > it's pretty clear, though. Even the server people do care about latencies. > > Often they care quite a bit, in fact. > > And Mike's patch didn't look big or complicated. But it is a hack. (thought about and measured, but hack nonetheless) I haven't tested it on much other than reader vs streaming writer. It may well destroy the rest of the IO universe. I don't have the hw to even test any hairy chested IO. -Mike _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
