On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> > update). The only thing left out of the merge for now is
> > Andrew Morton's read_latency patch, both because I'm not sure
> > how needed it is with the elevator updates
> Well, it is needed. This makes a difference for the I/O pauses noticed
> in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20. Anyway, readlatency-2 won't make them go away, but
> those stops/pauses are a bit less than before.
That was my gut feeling as well, but I guess it's a good thing
to quantify how much of a difference it makes. I wonder if we
could convince Con to test a kernel both with and without this
patch and look at the difference.
> So, here my patch proposal. Ontop of 2.4.20-rmap15a.
Looks good, now lets test it. If the patch is as needed as you
say we should push it to marcelo ;)
regards,
Rik
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