Fabrizio Magni wrote:
> Noons wrote:
>>
>> If anyone knows of detailed benchmark data that lead to the
>> io elevators being developed in kernel 2.4, I'd love to have a look
>> at them. So far, I've been unable to create any test case where
>> they would be of a definite advantage.
>>
>
> Hi Noons,
> personally I have never played with the elvtune so I'm really interested
> in your result.
> Have you published something?
>
> I tested the four 2.6 I/O schedulers (and their parameters) and the
> difference in performance are quite relevant.
>
> Benchmarks on the use of these schedulers are easy to spot out.
>
> I'm posting what was written on the linux kernel developer mailing list:
> http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/r/antsched/shines.html
> http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/r/antsched/antio.html
> and linux symposium (with a little bit of theory):
> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/proceedings/reprints/Reprint-Axboe-OLS2004.pdf
>
> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/proceedings/reprints/Reprint-Pratt-OLS2004.pdf
>
>
> This can be considered "dated" but in my opinion a very good reading on
> the linux block layer and on what the elevator can achieve is "Improving
> Linux Block I/O for Enterprise Workloads".
>
> Regards
>
Thanks for those links; I have nothing to add to this thread, but
follow it with all interest.
Looking forward to Nunos posting
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
Received on Sat Feb 11 2006 - 05:47:41 CST
