Re: [PATCH 0/8][RFC] IO latency/throughput fixes

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Apr 06 2009 - 11:11:14 EST


On Mon, Apr 06 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > This is a set of patches that I worked on today in the hopes
> > of furthering the latency goals and at least fixing some of
> > the write regression with fwrite + fsync that current -git
> > is suffering from.
>
> Goodie. Let's just do this. After all, right now we would otherwise have
> to revert the other changes as being a regression, and I absolutely _love_
> the fact that we're actually finally getting somewhere on this fsync
> latency issue that has been with us for so long.

Agree, it's been nagging for some time...

> Jens - I can just apply this queue (I want to test it out anyway), or if
> you prefer I can pull from you. Just tell me.

Whatever you want, if you want to pull instead of manually applying,
it's:

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git blk-latency

--
Jens Axboe

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