Nick Piggin wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Why do you think the IO layer should get larger requests?
For workloads where plugging helps (ie. lots of smaller, contiguous
requests going into the IO layer), should be pretty good these days
due to multiple readahead and writeback.
Let me try again.
For workloads where plugging helps (ie. lots of smaller, contiguous
requests going into the IO layer), the request pattern should be
pretty good without plugging these days, due to multiple page
readahead and writeback.
I really don't understand why people dislike plugging. It's obviously
superior to non-plugged variants, exactly because it starts the IO
only when _needed_,
Taken to its logical conclusion, you are saying readahead / dirty
page writeout throttling is obviously inferior, aren't you?
Non-rhetorically: Obviously there can be regressions in plugging,
because you are holding the disk idle when you know there is work to
be done.
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