Re: [RFC]block: change sort order of elv_dispatch_sort

[Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>]

On 2010-12-08 13:42, Shaohua Li wrote:
> Change the sort order a little bit. Makes requests with sector above boundary
> in ascendant order, and requests with sector below boundary in descendant
> order. The goal is we have less disk spindle move.
> For example, boundary is 7, we add sector 8, 1, 9, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 5, 11, 6
> In the original sort, the sorted list is:
> 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
> the spindle move is 8->12->1->6, total movement is 12*2 sectors
> with the new sort, the list is:
> 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
> the spindle move is 8->12->6->1, total movement is 12*1.5 sectors

It was actually done this way on purpose, it's been a while since we
have done two way elevators even outside the dispatch list sorting
itself.

Do you have any results to back this change up? I'd argue that
continuing to the end, sweeping back, and reading forwards again will be
faster then doing backwards reads usually.

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Jens Axboe