From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, suparna@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, w@1wt.eu,
torvalds@osdl.org, hpa@zytor.com, git@vger.kernel.org,
nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, warthog9@kernel.org,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com, pavel@ucw.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webmaster@kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:09:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070108170934.dafc5b81.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A24A65.1070706@garzik.org>
Jeff wrote:
> Something I just thought of: ATA and SCSI hard disks do their own
> read-ahead.
Probably this is wishful thinking on my part, but I would have hoped
that most of the read-ahead they did was for stuff that happened to be
on the cylinder they were reading anyway. So long as their read-ahead
doesn't cause much extra or delayed disk head motion, what does it
matter?
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20061214223718.GA3816@elf.ucw.cz>
[not found] ` <20061216094421.416a271e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
[not found] ` <20061216095702.3e6f1d1f.akpm@osdl.org>
[not found] ` <458434B0.4090506@oracle.com>
[not found] ` <1166297434.26330.34.camel@localhost.localdomain>
[not found] ` <1166304080.13548.8.camel@nigel.suspend2.net>
[not found] ` <459152B1.9040106@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <1168140954.2153.1.camel@nigel.suspend2.net>
2007-01-07 4:22 ` [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel Jeff Garzik
2007-01-07 4:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 20:11 ` Greg KH
2007-01-07 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-07 22:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-07 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 23:32 ` Martin Langhoff
[not found] ` <45A08269.4050504@zytor.com>
2007-01-07 5:24 ` How git affects kernel.org performance H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07 5:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 8:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 8:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07 9:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 10:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07 10:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <9e4733910701071126r7931042eldfb73060792f4f41@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-07 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 10:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 18:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-07 19:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 19:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-07 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 9:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-07 9:38 ` Rene Herman
2007-01-08 3:05 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-08 12:58 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-08 13:41 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2007-01-08 13:56 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-08 13:59 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-08 14:17 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-08 13:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-09 1:09 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2007-01-09 2:18 ` Jeremy Higdon
[not found] ` <20070109075945.GA8799@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-01-09 7:59 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-09 7:59 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-09 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20070110015739.GA26978@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-01-10 1:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10 1:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10 1:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10 3:20 ` Nigel Cunningham
[not found] ` <20070110140730.GA986@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-01-10 14:07 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10 14:07 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10 14:07 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-12 10:54 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-09 7:59 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-07 14:57 ` Robert Fitzsimons
2007-01-07 19:12 ` J.H.
2007-01-08 1:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-07 15:06 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-07 20:31 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-08 14:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20070108170934.dafc5b81.pj@sgi.com \
--to=pj@sgi.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=jeff@garzik.org \
--cc=linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=nigel@nigel.suspend2.net \
--cc=pavel@ucw.cz \
--cc=randy.dunlap@oracle.com \
--cc=suparna@in.ibm.com \
--cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
--cc=tytso@mit.edu \
--cc=w@1wt.eu \
--cc=warthog9@kernel.org \
--cc=webmaster@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).