Re: [PATCH] Give kjournald a IOPRIO_CLASS_RT io priority

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:38 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Mount a junk partition with `-oakpm' and run some benchmarks.  If the
> results are "wow" then it's worth spending time on.  If the results
> are "meh" then we can not bother..
> 

I've been running with this for a few hours now
while I can't see IO is perfectly smooth now, it does feel a lot better
and latencytop isn't showing me the huge spikes in latency either in
the mail client.
(there's a lot of little stuff, but not the 4+ seconds)
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