Re: IO scheduler based IO controller V10

[Corrado Zoccolo]

Hi Jens,
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 03 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Â Â unsigned int cfq_desktop;
>> > + Â unsigned int cfq_desktop_dispatch;
>>
>> > - Â if (cfq_cfqq_idle_window(cfqq) && cfqd->rq_in_driver[BLK_RW_ASYNC])
>> > + Â if (cfq_cfqq_idle_window(cfqq) && cfqd->rq_in_driver[BLK_RW_ASYNC]) {
>> > + Â Â Â Â Â cfqd->desktop_dispatch_ts = jiffies;
>> > Â Â Â Â Â Â return 0;
>> > + Â }
>>
>> btw., i hope all those desktop_ things will be named latency_ pretty
>> soon as the consensus seems to be - the word 'desktop' feels so wrong in
>> this context.
>>
>> 'desktop' is a form of use of computers and the implication of good
>> latencies goes far beyond that category of systems.
>
> I will rename it, for now it doesn't matter (lets not get bogged down in
> bike shed colors, please).
>
> Oh and Mike, I forgot to mention this in the previous email - no more
> tunables, please. We'll keep this under a single knob.

Did you have a look at my http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/47750/ ?
It already introduces a 'target_latency' tunable, expressed in ms.

If we can quantify the benefits of each technique, we could enable
them based on the target latency requested by that single tunable.

Corrado

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dott. Corrado Zoccolo                          mailto:czoccolo@xxxxxxxxx
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