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Date:      Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:24:28 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c 
Message-ID:  <199912071824.KAA02863@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:09:47 PST." <199912071809.KAA30408@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>     I just realized --- softupdates doesn't use the ordered tag at all.
>     It only issues writes for buffers that can be written out of order,
>     then waits for the SCSI command to complete before issuing the
>     dependancies.

It'd be interesting to elide the wait and see if this improved 
throughput.  It's not (really) much of a safeguard once you assume that 
disks/downstream caches are write-buffering things anyway.

(Making that behaviour default would not be a good idea, but it'd be 
 interesting to see what impact it might have.)

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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