Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel PreemptionPatch

[Mark Lord]

Note that the method used by hdparm tends to underreport
achievable throughput somewhat, because it generally only
ever has one I/O "in flight".

Cheers
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 08:19, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 20 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > > > How much I/O do you allow to be in flight at once?  It seems like by
> > > > decreasing the maximum size of I/O that you handle in one interrupt
> > > > you could improve this quite a bit.  Disk throughput is good enough,
> > > > anyone in the real world who would feel a 10% hit would just throw
> > > > hardware at the problem.
...
> According to hdparm, the throughput is still quite good (42MB/sec on a 
> sub-$100 IDE drive).


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