Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262625AbUC2FXa (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:23:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262661AbUC2FX3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:23:29 -0500 Received: from 80-169-17-66.mesanetworks.net ([66.17.169.80]:51890 "EHLO mail.bounceswoosh.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262625AbUC2FX1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:23:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:24:05 -0700 From: "Eric D. Mudama" To: Nick Piggin Cc: "Eric D. Mudama" , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA Message-ID: <20040329052405.GG6405@bounceswoosh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Piggin , "Eric D. Mudama" , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton References: <4066021A.20308@pobox.com> <40661049.1050004@yahoo.com.au> <20040328044029.GB1984@bounceswoosh.org> <40667734.8090203@yahoo.com.au> <20040328203357.GB6405@bounceswoosh.org> <20040328205917.GF6405@bounceswoosh.org> <40677C21.7070807@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40677C21.7070807@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 672 Lines: 21 On Mon, Mar 29 at 11:30, Nick Piggin wrote: >Well strictly, you send them one after the other. So unless you >have something similar to our anticipatory scheduler or plugging >mechanism, the drive should attack the first one first, shouldn't >it? If you send 32 commands to our disk at once (TCQ/NCQ) we send 'em all to our back-end disk engine as fast as possible. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/