Re: [PATCH 2/9]: Reduce Log I/O latency

[Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:09:22AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:29:09AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:10:29PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > If I've got XFS on filesystems A and B on the same spindle (or volume
> > > group?) and my real RT I/O takes place only on B, then I want log
> > > flushing to happen in RT on B. But -never on A-. If I can do this with
> > > a tunable, I'm perfectly happy.
> > 
> > No, not another mount option. I'm just going to drop this one for
> > now...
> 
> Actually, I might change it to use the highest non-rt priority, which
> would solve the latency issues in the normal cases and still leave
> the RT rope dangling for those that want to use it.
> 
> Is that an acceptible compromise, Matt?

Yes, that's perfectly fine.

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