Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 latency fixes

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Apr 04 2009 - 16:55:23 EST


On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 19:34:12 +0200
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple.
>
> It's really not that simple, otherwise the schedulers would be much
> simpler. It's pretty easy to get good latency if you disregard any
> throughput concerns,

I'd be very interested in a scheduler like that.....
How much work would it be to make it ?

(if nothing else it would be a good number to have "should be within
50% of the perfect one for the tradeoff")


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