On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:45:59PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > perspective it does nullify the need for readahead (though
> > it is obivously still needed for other reasons).
>
> I'm guessing that physically it may be needed from a head prospective
> too, I doubt it only has to do with the in-core overhead. Seeing it all
> before reaching the seek point might allow the disk to do smarter things
> NOTE: just to be sure, I'm not at all against anticpiatory scheduling,
Most disks seem to have a large cache, but with the cache unit
for most of the cache being one _track_ at a time.
This has the effect of the disk reading one track in at a time,
but only being able to cache a few of these tracks in its cache.
Anticipatory scheduling should reduce any thrashing of this disk
cache.
regards,
Rik
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