Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA

[Timothy Miller]

Jens Axboe wrote:

> - The optimal_sectors calculation is just an average of previous maximum
>   with current maximum. The scheme has a number of break down points,
>   for instance writes starving reads will give you a bad read execution
>   time, further limiting ->optimal_sectors[READ]


I did look through your code a bit, but one thing to be concerned with 
is that going only on max throughput might be fooled by cache hits on 
the drive.

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