Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel PreemptionPatch

From: Mark Lord
Date: Sat Jul 24 2004 - 07:44:46 EST


Note that the method used by hdparm tends to underreport
achievable throughput somewhat, because it generally only
ever has one I/O "in flight".

Cheers
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")

Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 08:19, Jens Axboe wrote:

On Tue, Jul 20 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:

How much I/O do you allow to be in flight at once? It seems like by
decreasing the maximum size of I/O that you handle in one interrupt
you could improve this quite a bit. Disk throughput is good enough,
anyone in the real world who would feel a 10% hit would just throw
hardware at the problem.
...
According to hdparm, the throughput is still quite good (42MB/sec on a sub-$100 IDE drive).


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