Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 00/18] RFC: Non blocking submit for activity log misses

2013-03-22 Thread lars . ellenberg
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:17:06AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19 2013, Philipp Reisner wrote: > > This patch series improves DRBD's behavior. A submitter is no longer blocked > > in the case of a AL-miss. For this a dedicated submitter worker is > > introduced > > (patch 13). > Patch

Re: [PATCH 00/18] RFC: Non blocking submit for activity log misses

2013-03-22 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Mar 19 2013, Philipp Reisner wrote: > The Issues > > Since the beginning DRBD was written with the assumption that the write > pattern has spacial locality. (This assumption was driven from the fact, > that rotating media performs better if you do not send the head too far too > often) >

[PATCH 00/18] RFC: Non blocking submit for activity log misses

2013-03-19 Thread Philipp Reisner
The Issues Since the beginning DRBD was written with the assumption that the write pattern has spacial locality. (This assumption was driven from the fact, that rotating media performs better if you do not send the head too far too often) Backed by this assumption a caller that submits a request