Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:54:25 +0200
From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT and merges
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:54:08 +0200
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14 2008, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >=20
> > I noticed you've added a new flag to indicate that the drive has no
> > seek costs and I figured it would be a good idea to use that on the
> > MMC/SD cards.
>=20
> That was me, actually...
>=20

Sorry, this was meant for you of course. I don't know how I got things
mixed up there. I guess I'll have to blame lack of coffee this
morning. :)

> > Since the name isn't entirely clear in what is implied, I just wanted
> > to check that there are no plans to assume that there is negligable
> > request overhead for queues with this flag. I.e. the flag should
> > indicate that the elevator doesn't have to care about seeks, but it
> > should still try to merge requests to reduce the transaction overhead.
>=20
> Sounds about right. The flag is just meant to indicate zero-seek cost,
> as devices will still have per-command overheads, merging is still
> applicable.
>=20
> So yes, you want to set that flag for mmc/sd cards, definitely.
>=20

Great. I'll get a patch out ASAP.

Rgds
--=20
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