Re: IO degradation in 2.4.17-pre2 vs. 2.4.16

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dan Maas wrote:

> > > Yes, throughtput-only tests will have their numbers degradated with the
> > > change applied on 2.4.16-pre2.
> > > 
> > > The whole thing is just about tradeoffs: Interactivity vs throughtput.
> > > 
> > > I'm not going to destroy interactivity for end users to get beatiful
> > > dbench numbers.
> >
> > Latency is more of an issue for end user machines.
> 
> Time for CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_THROUGHPUT / CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_LATENCY ?

That would be the best thing to do, yes.