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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:56:24 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Increasing MAXPHYS 
Message-ID:  <36866.1269334584@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:36:07 %2B0100." <20100322233607.GB1767@garage.freebsd.pl> 

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In message <20100322233607.GB1767@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek write
s:

>A class is suppose to interact with other classes only via GEOM, so I
>think it should be safe to choose g_up/g_down threads for each class
>individually, for example:
>
>	/dev/ad0s1a (DEV)
>	       |
>	g_up_0 + g_down_0
>	       |
>	     ad0s1a (BSD)
>	       |
>	g_up_1 + g_down_1
>	       |
>	     ad0s1 (MBR)
>	       |
>	g_up_2 + g_down_2
>	       |
>	     ad0 (DISK)

Uhm, that way you get _more_ context switches than today, today g_down
will typically push the requests all the way down through the stack
without a context switch.  (Similar for g_up)


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