On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:43:42PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > I'll do this just to see what it looks like. To be frank, I lack > taste when it comes to how the block layer and filesystem should > behave so am having troube deciding if sorting the pages prior to > submission is a good thing or if it would just encourage bad or lax > behaviour in the IO submission queueing. > I suspect the right answer is we need to sort both at the block layer and either (a) before you pass things to the filesystem layer, or if you don't do that (b) the filesystem will be forced to do its own queuing/sorting at the very least for delayed allocation pages, so the allocator can do something sane. And given that there are multiple file systems that support delayed allocation, it would be nice if this could be recognized by the writeback code, as opposed to having btrfs, xfs, ext4, all having to implement something very similar at the fs layer. - Ted -- 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>