On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:47:40 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > there will be times (i.e., when we are doing a checkpoint as > opposed to a commit, or in a fsync-heavy workload), where we will end > up getting blocked behind kjournald, so upping the I/O priority really > does make sense. Not if it will cause kjournald writes to be prioritised ahead of any reads, I suspect. Writes are rarely synchronous, but with reads, there's almost always someone waiting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
