On Tuesday 04 March 2003 14:50, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Do Clustering of request and scatter-gather mean the same ?? Confused
> > to the core... Kindly help me ...
>
> No, the elevator clustering refers to clustering request that are
> contigious on disk. Scatter-gather may cluster sg entries that are
> contigious in memory.
Hi Jens,
I think you meant to write *non*contiguous in memory (but contiguous on the
device).
Regards,
Daniel
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