Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA

Nick Piggin
2004-03-29T01:30:16Z

Eric D. Mudama wrote:

>
> Er, forgot about the queue depth of only 2...
>
> Even in that case, you'll more than likely still get better throughput
> with a single 32-MB command... If you send a pair of queued commands
> down, and the 2nd one is chosen, there's no reason that the first one
> won't get starved until the very end of the request, which would have
> bad latency on that command.
>

Well strictly, you send them one after the other. So unless you
have something similar to our anticipatory scheduler or plugging
mechanism, the drive should attack the first one first, shouldn't
it?