Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Dec 27 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > > In principle it looks ok, but after some time we are bound to fail 8 > > frame allocations anyway and this patch won't help. For the modular > > case, preallocation of a bigger chunk at init time is no good either. > > Builtin would be fine of

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-27 Thread David Mansfield
Jens Axboe wrote: > > In principle it looks ok, but after some time we are bound to fail 8 > frame allocations anyway and this patch won't help. For the modular > case, preallocation of a bigger chunk at init time is no good either. > Builtin would be fine of course. This almost screams sg to me

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-27 Thread David Mansfield
Jens Axboe wrote: In principle it looks ok, but after some time we are bound to fail 8 frame allocations anyway and this patch won't help. For the modular case, preallocation of a bigger chunk at init time is no good either. Builtin would be fine of course. This almost screams sg to me :-)

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Dec 27 2000, David Mansfield wrote: In principle it looks ok, but after some time we are bound to fail 8 frame allocations anyway and this patch won't help. For the modular case, preallocation of a bigger chunk at init time is no good either. Builtin would be fine of course. This

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 26 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > > > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > > > > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally > > ... cut ... > > > Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to > >

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
> > > > > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > > > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally ... cut ... > Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to > allocate 1' solution would be a simple compromise?

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 22 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > > Jens, > > > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally > > reads at 2-3x. Since test13-pre2 it's down to .6 - .7x.

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
Jens Axboe wrote: On Fri, Dec 22 2000, David Mansfield wrote: Jens, The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally reads at 2-3x. Since test13-pre2 it's down to .6 - .7x. I've reverted

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally ... cut ... Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to allocate 1' solution would be a simple compromise? That should

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 26 2000, David Mansfield wrote: The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally ... cut ... Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to allocate 1'

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-23 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Dec 22 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > Jens, > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally > reads at 2-3x. Since test13-pre2 it's down to .6 - .7x. I've reverted > the following

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-23 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Dec 22 2000, David Mansfield wrote: Jens, The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally reads at 2-3x. Since test13-pre2 it's down to .6 - .7x. I've reverted the following files to