On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > If the batch size is larger than the virtio queue size, or if there are > no flushes at all, then yes the huge write cache gives more opportunity > for reordering. But we're already talking hundreds of requests here. Yes. And rememember those don't have to come from the same host. Also remember that we rather limit execssive reodering of O_DIRECT requests in the I/O scheduler because they are "synchronous" type I/O while we don't do that for pagecache writeback. And we don't have unlimited virtio queue size, in fact it's quite limited. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>