On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:43:02PM -0400, tytso@xxxxxxx wrote: > Have you tested with multiple files that are subject to writeout at > the same time? After all, if your I/O allocator does a great job of > keeping the files contiguous in chunks larger tham 4MB, then if you > have two or more files that need to be written out, the page allocator > will round robin between the two files in 4MB chunks, and that might > not be considered an ideal I/O pattern. Argh. Sorry for not proof reading better before hitting the send key.... s/tham/than/ s/page allocator/writeback code/ - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html