Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA

Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28T17:29:27Z

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>"IOPs" are what make a lot of storage peeps excited these days, so they
>>are being pushed in a low-latency direction anyway.
>
>
> IOPS says nothing about latency, it's still 100% throughput oriented.

In order to achieve a large IOPs number, one must sent a ton of small
requests. Per-request latency as well as overall throughput is a factor.

Jeff