Subject: Re: NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY vs. options.4 [was: Re: Status of NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY?]
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/28/2002 21:33:12
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> How about this:
>
> Index: options.4
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/sharesrc/share/man/man4/options.4,v
> retrieving revision 1.190
> diff -u -r1.190 options.4
> --- options.4 2002/11/19 04:16:02 1.190
> +++ options.4 2002/11/28 04:16:16
> @@ -789,6 +789,13 @@
> .El
> .Ss Miscellaneous Options
> .Bl -ohang
> +.It Cd options NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY
> +Enable experimental buffer queue strategy for disk I/O.
> +It gives higher priority to read requests over write requests, and thereby
> +improves the overall system responsiveness considerably under heavy disk
> +I/O load.
> +.Em NOTE :
> +It's not yet proven to be stable, so use it at your own risk.
> .It Cd options LKM
> Enable loadable kernel modules.
> See
Sounds fine!
- Hubert
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