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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
	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 14:44:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061018124420.GI24452@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161175344.9363.30.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Oct 18 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> Bandwidth is completely silly in this context, iops/sec is merely
> hopeless 8)

Both need the disk to play nicely, if you get into error handling or
correction, you get screwed. Bandwidth by itself is meaningless, you
need latency as well to make sense of it.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18 12:43 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
2006-10-18 12:44                 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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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