Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:24:37AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 16:10 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > - It will avoid large-file-reads-thrashing-my-desktop problem,
> > > so most desktop users should like it. But sure there will be counter
> > > cases when a user want to keep the data cached.
> > > - File servers may hurt from it. Imagine a mp3/png file server. The
> > > files are large enough to trigger drop-behind, but small (and hot)
> > > enough to be cached. Also when a new fedora DVD iso is released, it
> > > may be cached for some days. These are only the obvious cases.
> > >
> > > So I opt for it being made tunable, safe, and turned off by default.
> >
> > I'm still not convinced (Rik wasn't either last time around). When these
> > files really are hot, they will be kept in memory due to them becoming
> > Active.
> >
> > Also, by scaling up the max readahead size it takes a larger file before
> > it starts dropping. If say this server has 4G of memory (not much at all
> > for a server) resulting in a 1M readahead window, the file needs to be >
> > ~2M before it starts drop behind.
>
> [snip]
>
> > But I guess it takes someone to try this IRL before we can settle this
> > debate :-/
>
> Yeah, some real workload numbers would help.
A patch against 2.6.22 may help too.
Thanks!
--
Al
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