Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?

Nick Piggin
2003-04-14T23:52:44Z

Chuck Ebbert wrote:

>Nick Piggin wrote:
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>>There is (in AS) no cost function further than comparing distance
>>from the head. Closest forward seek wins.
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> The RAID1 code has its own scheduler that does similar things. Why
>aren't they being integrated? (See raid1.c:read_balance())
>
If RAID1 can use the generic elevator then it should. I
guess it can't though.