From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 14 16:06:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01193 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 16:06:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01188 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 16:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA06039; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:35:54 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA28619; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:35:47 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981115103547.F28481@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:35:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: mike@smith.net.au, ticso@cicely.de, peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Vinum] Stupid benchmark: newfsstone References: <19981114104105.S781@freebie.lemis.com> <199811142349.QAA28317@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811142349.QAA28317@usr02.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:49:45PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 14 November 1998 at 23:49:45 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> I'll tell you what: anybody who wants, go and look at the request >> building code in /usr/src/lkm/vinum/request.c and rebuild it to >> perform the "aggregation" optimizations that Bernd wants, and I'll >> put it into the code. > > RAIDFrame was built as a research tool to allow people to test > out just such theories, with the minimum amount of code, and no > modification required to the framework in which the code runs. > > It's acutally the right tool for the job of testing these ideas > out. I'm not sure. One of the problems is timing. I'm sure RAIDFrame would behave differently from Vinum, especially regarding the sequence in which the requests are issued. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message