Re: How to make kernel block layer generate bigger request in the request queue?

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>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> writes:

>> Correct.  It's quite unlikely for pages to be contiguous so this is
>> the best we can do.

James> Actually, average servers do about 50% contiguous on average
James> since we changed the mm layer to allocate in ascending physical
James> page order ...  this figure is highly sensitive to mm changes
James> though, and can vary from release to release.

Interesting.  When did this happen?

Last time I gathered data on segment merge efficiency (1 year+ ago) I
found that adjacent pages were quite rare for a normal fs type workload.
Certainly not in the 50% ballpark.  I'll take another look when I have a
moment...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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