Re: [PATCH RFC - TAKE TWO - 08/12] block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives

[Paolo Valente]

Il giorno 31/mag/2014, alle ore 15:48, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:05:39AM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> This patch addresses this issue by not disabling device idling for
> 
> This patch addresses this issue by allowing device idling for...
> 
>> weight-raised queues, even if the device supports NCQ. This allows BFQ
>> to start serving a new queue, and therefore allows the drive to
> 
> This disallows BFQ to start serving a new queue, and therefore the
> drive to prefetch new requests, until the idling timeout expires.
> 
> Prefetch?  Can you elaborate?

By prefetching I meant just queuing more than one request (by the drive). I hope that this clarifies things a little bit.

Paolo

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun


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