1. 22 Feb, 2010 2 commits
  2. 29 Jan, 2010 1 commit
    • Alan D. Brunelle's avatar
      block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O · 488991e2
      Alan D. Brunelle authored
      Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
      merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).
      
      The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
      a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.
      
      nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
      --------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
      0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
      1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
      2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      488991e2
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