Re: Time sliced CFQ io scheduler

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:11:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  One hidden side effect of "as" is that by writing so slowly (and
> >  64KiB/sec really is slow), it increases the time it will take for a
> >  dirty page to be flushed to disk
> 
> The 64k/sec only happens for direct-io, and those pages aren't dirty.

I agree my above claim was wrong, thanks for correcting it.
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