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From: Ming Zhang <blackmagic02881@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BTT PATCH] Add in option to change seek distance calculations
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:18:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176225496.3696.34.camel@fs0004.ibrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461BC3C5.5060307@hp.com>

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 13:05 -0400, Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
> +
> +  \begin{description}
> +    \item[default] By default, the seek distance is calculated as the
> +    \emph{closest} distance between the previous IO and this IO. The
> +    concept of \emph{closeness} means that it could either be the
> +    \emph{end} of the previous IO and the beginning of the next, or
> the
> +    end of this IO and the start of the next.
> +
> +    \item[\texttt{-a}] If the \texttt{-a} or \texttt{seek-absolute}
> +    option is specified, then the seek distance is simply the
> difference
> +    between the start of the previous IO and the start of this IO.
> +  \end{description}
>   

a typo? the distance between 2 start? or end of previous IO and start of
this IO?

Ming



      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-10 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-10 17:05 [BTT PATCH] Add in option to change seek distance calculations Alan D. Brunelle
2007-04-10 17:18 ` Ming Zhang [this message]

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