Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost

[Akira Hayakawa]

On 12/12/14 6:12 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> This is the first time I see someone claiming that reducing the request size improves performance. I don't know any SSD model for which splitting requests improves performance.

Writeboost batches number of writes into a log (that is 512KB large) and submits to SSD
which maximizes the throughput and the lifetime of the SSD.
I think you fairly misunderstand how Writeboost works.

- Akira
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/