From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:58:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9A31FF.6030506@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050272156.24559.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>On Sul, 2003-04-13 at 19:03, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
>> OTOH you can come up with scenarios like, say, a DBMS doing 16K page
>>aligned IO to raw devices where you might see big gains from making sure
>>those 16K chunks didn't cross a physical cylinder boundary.
>>
>
>You couldn't even tell where such boundaries exist, or what the real
>block size of the underlying media is. Cyliners are all different sizes.
>
Yes this is getting very difficult as Alan said. Its also something
that we can't do in kernel - the block io scheduler can only choose
from what it is given. I wouldn't be surprised if big databases did
try using some sorts of disk mapping systems to help optimise
their IO however.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-14 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-13 18:03 Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry? Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 18:24 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 18:32 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-04-13 18:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 22:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 0:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-13 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 3:58 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-16 13:28 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 23:06 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 18:33 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 1:16 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-16 1:59 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 1:19 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15 8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 21:27 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15 0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 3:44 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-14 2:29 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 22:13 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 23:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-12 22:46 Timothy Miller
2003-04-13 9:51 ` John Bradford
2003-04-13 11:50 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 15:25 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-14 3:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 6:44 ` Mark Hahn
2003-04-14 13:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-13 16:15 ` John Bradford
2003-04-18 13:01 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-18 13:25 ` John Bradford
2003-04-14 18:27 ` Wes Felter
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