From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:24:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40670A36.3000005@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040328135124.GA32597@mail.shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>TCQ-on-write for ATA disks is yummy because you don't really know what
>>the heck the ATA disk is writing at the present time. By the time the
>>Linux disk scheduler gets around to deciding it has a nicely merged and
>>scheduled set of requests, it may be totally wrong for the disk's IO
>>scheduler. TCQ gives the disk a lot more power when the disk integrates
>>writes into its internal IO scheduling.
>
>
> Does TCQ-on-write allow you to do ordered write commits, as with barriers,
> but without needing full cache flushes, and still get good performance?
Nope, TCQ is just a bunch of commands rather than one. There are no
special barrier indicators you can pass down with a command.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-28 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-27 22:37 [PATCH] speed up SATA Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:04 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-27 23:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 7:23 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 15:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 0:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 11:42 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-27 23:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:47 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:10 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:35 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 18:15 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 12:44 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 13:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 13:08 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 8:13 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-30 11:40 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 17:19 ` Craig I. Hagan
2004-03-29 18:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-28 18:17 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:30 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 20:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 0:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 4:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 13:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 19:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 11:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 15:54 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 16:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:05 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:19 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-29 4:29 ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-03-29 7:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-29 8:13 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 13:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 4:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-29 4:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:52 ` Nuno Silva
2004-03-28 20:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:15 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 0:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 1:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 1:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 13:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 13:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-28 17:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:50 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-02 10:11 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-02 16:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 10:48 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-03 13:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:40 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:55 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:54 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 7:32 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 21:16 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 21:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:08 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:45 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 0:21 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 4:40 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 6:56 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 20:33 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 20:59 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29 1:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-29 5:24 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29 13:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 11:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-29 18:46 ` David Lang
2004-03-29 20:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 5:55 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-30 11:54 ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 13:07 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 13:48 ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 13:49 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 15:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 17:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31 9:12 ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 12:16 ` Marc Bevand
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-31 5:47 Marcus Hartig
2004-03-31 6:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31 16:07 ` Marcus Hartig
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