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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:49:49 -0500
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
CC: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, Kyle Wong <kylewong@southa.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: questions about io scheduler
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Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Kyle Wong wrote:
>>
>>> 2. Does io scheduler works with md RAID? Correct me if I'm wrong,
>>> io-schedular <-->  md driver <--> harddisks.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It goes md driver -> io schedulers -> hard disks.
> 
> 
> There is an IO scheduler per disk.
> 
> So MD submits the data to each disk through the IO scheduler.
> 
> This allows you to have the heads on each disk in the array at different 
> locations, and helps keep response times lower for seeky loads.

Say you've got a RAID1.  In this case, MD could send the read request to 
either device.  How does it decide which one to use?


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