Re: queue_nr_requests needs to be selective

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 16:03:22 EST

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> I don't immediately see why increasing the queue length should
> increase bandwidth in this manner. One possibility is that

Latency on the controllers ? With caches on the controller and disks you
can have a lot of requests actually in flight

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