On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:52:44AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:27:09 +0100
> Andrea Righi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:03:07AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
> > > I am still setting up the system to test whether we see any speedup in
> > > writeout of large files with-in a memory cgroup with small memory limits.
> > > I am assuming that we are expecting a speedup because we will start
> > > writeouts early and background writeouts probably are faster than direct
> > > reclaim?
> > 
> > mmh... speedup? I think with a large file write + reduced dirty limits
> > you'll get a more uniform write-out (more frequent small writes),
> > respect to few and less frequent large writes. The system will be more
> > reactive, but I don't think you'll be able to see a speedup in the large
> > write itself.
> > 
> Ah, sorry. I misunderstood something. But it's depends on dirty_ratio param.
> If
>       background_dirty_ratio = 5
>       dirty_ratio            = 100
> under 100M cgroup, I think background write-out will be a help.

Right, in this case background flusher threads will help a lot to
write-out the cgroup dirty memory and it'll get better performance.

-Andrea
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