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From: Akira Hayakawa <ruby.wktk@gmail.com>
To: bvanassche@acm.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, thornber@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:35:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <548AB6E4.2020302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <548AB172.4000103@acm.org>

On 12/12/14 6:12 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> This is the first time I see someone claiming that reducing the request size improves performance. I don't know any SSD model for which splitting requests improves performance.

Writeboost batches number of writes into a log (that is 512KB large) and submits to SSD
which maximizes the throughput and the lifetime of the SSD.
I think you fairly misunderstand how Writeboost works.

- Akira

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-12  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54883195.1060304@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20141211152626.GA8196@redhat.com>
2014-12-12  0:42   ` [PATCH v2] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost Akira Hayakawa
2014-12-12  9:12     ` [dm-devel] " Bart Van Assche
2014-12-12  9:35       ` Akira Hayakawa [this message]
2014-12-12 11:41         ` Bart Van Assche
2014-12-12 14:24     ` Joe Thornber
2014-12-12 15:09       ` Akira Hayakawa
2014-12-13  6:45         ` [dm-devel] " Jianjian Huo
2014-12-13 14:07           ` Akira Hayakawa
2014-12-14  2:12             ` Akira Hayakawa
2014-12-14  2:46             ` Jianjian Huo
2014-12-14  3:22               ` Akira Hayakawa
2014-12-14  3:00         ` Akira Hayakawa

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