Re: mysterious dbench results

[Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> <snip>
>> Other changes coming down the pipeline - probably next week will help too,
>> we have better dbench and bonnie numbers on some internal code right now.

> It looks we're allocating the page to hold the page pointers for the
> cluster unconditionally in __pagebuf_write_full_page (my last message
> talks a bit more about that kind of stuff). This page, as far as I can
> see, is not used at all without kiobuf io. (Thomas is not using kiobuf IO
> IIRC). 

correct - all my testing was without kio

btw. does the kiobuf stuff now work again without any risk in 2.4.2?
(i remember there was a problem which was i think somehow related to
the multiblock think in pio mode which steve wanted to fix for 2.4.2
... somewhat in that direction i think it was)

t

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