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Re: IDEA: multiple dirty lists in buffer.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Hand)
Sat Apr 3 11:48:54 1999
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 02:37:52 +1000 (EST)
From: Nathan Hand <nathanh@wookie.chirp.com.au>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990329214817.936A-100000@localhost>
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> By flushing part of each dirty list at a time (minimum 1 buffer), and
> circularily scanning these dirty lists, bdflush will have far more chance
> to feed several devices, before having to wait, than using a single dirty
> list.
Why not have multiple bdflush processes, one per list.
Would the kernel modifications be significant for this?
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