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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Phetteplace, Thad (GE Healthcare,
	consultant)"  <Thad.Phetteplace@ge.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bandwidth Allocations under CFQ I/O Scheduler
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:42:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161175344.9363.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061018122323.GW23492@unthought.net>

Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 14:23 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jakob Oestergaard:
> iops/sec is what you get from your disks. In real world scenarios. It's
> no more magic than the real world, and no harder to understand than real
> world disks. Although I admit real-world disks can be a bitch at times ;)

Even iops/sec is very vague and arbitary. If your disk happens to be
retrying a sector or doing a cleaning pass or any other housekeeping or
vibration damping and so on you'll get very different numbers.

Bandwidth is completely silly in this context, iops/sec is merely
hopeless 8)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-16 20:46 Bandwidth Allocations under CFQ I/O Scheduler Phetteplace, Thad (GE Healthcare, consultant)
2006-10-17  1:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-17 13:23   ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-17 14:37     ` Ric Wheeler
2006-10-17 14:47       ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-17 14:46     ` Phetteplace, Thad (GE Healthcare, consultant)
2006-10-18  8:00     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-10-18  9:40       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-18 11:30         ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-10-18 11:49           ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-18 12:23             ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-10-18 12:42               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-18 12:44                 ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-18 12:55                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-18 13:04                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-18 13:39                       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-10-18 13:51                       ` Paulo Marques
2006-10-19 12:22                         ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-18 13:37                     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-10-18 12:44                 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-10-18 12:42               ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-18 13:35                 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-10-18  9:51       ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-18 11:00         ` Helge Hafting
2006-10-18 11:14           ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-18 11:23           ` Ric Wheeler

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