On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:07:07PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> It could help a lot, but I think it would help most _in combination with_
> transaction combining in disksort.  Combining transaction in disksort is
> an inexpensive catch-all that can cure many ills: filesystems that generate
> many small transactions, transactions that "aren't contiguous" from the point
> of view of the FS/VM layer but that, at the device level, once you've sorted
> the queue, actually are (e.g. transactions to different vnodes that actually
> turn out to be physically adjacent on the disk), etc.  With a larger MAXPHYS,
> the potential to help probably increases even more -- and the check is cheap,
> so why not?

Ho, I didn't say it shouldn't be done, I just said it was not the best
fix for the raidframe problem :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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