Re: IO scheduler based IO controller V10

[Mike Galbraith]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 11:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > It's not hard to make the latency good, the hard bit is making sure we 
> > also perform well for all other scenarios.
> 
> Looking at the numbers from Mike:
> 
>  | dd competing against perf stat -- konsole -e exec timings, 5 back to 
>  | back runs
>  |                                                         Avg
>  | before         9.15    14.51     9.39    15.06     9.90   11.6
>  | after [+patch] 1.76     1.54     1.93     1.88     1.56    1.7
> 
> _PLEASE_ make read latencies this good - the numbers are _vastly_ 
> better. We'll worry about the 'other' things _after_ we've reached good 
> latencies.
> 
> I thought this principle was a well established basic rule of Linux IO 
> scheduling. Why do we have to have a 'latency vs. bandwidth' discussion 
> again and again? I thought latency won hands down.

Just a note:  In the testing I've done so far, we're better off today
than ever, and I can't recall beating on root ever being anything less
than agony for interactivity.  IO seekers look a lot like CPU sleepers
to me.  Looks like both can be as annoying as hell ;-)

	-Mike

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