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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:05:40 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
To:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, lite2@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Delayed write patch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961009170321.10204h-100000@minnow.render.com>
In-Reply-To: <2389.844870583@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:

> dfr> > I tried this patch, but there is no performance improvement.
> dfr> > It's still around 300KB.
> dfr> > 
> dfr> > tcpdump shows that only one iod is running.
> dfr> 
> dfr> If you change nfs_asyncio to return EIO instead of using a delayed write,
> dfr> how many iods are running?
> if I start 4 iods, 4 iods are running.

If you change nfs_maxdelwri to zero using gdb or ddb, what write
performance do you see?  That ought to be the same as the nfs_dwrite==0
case.  I can't figure out why the other iods should get locked out.  Are
you sure that all the reqs are made by the same iod?

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