From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT and merges
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:54:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081014075407.GU19428@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081014095017.265faf37@mjolnir.drzeus.cx>
On Tue, Oct 14 2008, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I noticed you've added a new flag to indicate that the drive has no
> seek costs and I figured it would be a good idea to use that on the
> MMC/SD cards.
That was me, actually...
> Since the name isn't entirely clear in what is implied, I just wanted
> to check that there are no plans to assume that there is negligable
> request overhead for queues with this flag. I.e. the flag should
> indicate that the elevator doesn't have to care about seeks, but it
> should still try to merge requests to reduce the transaction overhead.
Sounds about right. The flag is just meant to indicate zero-seek cost,
as devices will still have per-command overheads, merging is still
applicable.
So yes, you want to set that flag for mmc/sd cards, definitely.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-14 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 7:50 QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT and merges Pierre Ossman
2008-10-14 7:54 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-10-14 8:08 ` QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT Alan Jenkins
2008-10-14 8:48 ` QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT Jens Axboe
2008-10-14 8:54 ` QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT and merges Pierre Ossman
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