Re: patches for test / review

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>* Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000320 11:45] wrote:
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>> 
>> >Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the drivers were
>> >taught how to traverse the linked list in the buf struct rather
>> >than just notice "a big buffer" we could avoid a lot of page
>> >twiddling and also allow for massive IO clustering ( > 64k ) 
>> 
>> Before we redesign the clustering, I would like to know if we
>> actually have any recent benchmarks which prove that clustering
>> is overall beneficial ?
>
>Yes it is really benificial.

I would like to see some numbers if you have them.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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