Re: How git affects kernel.org performance

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Mon Jan 08 2007 - 20:12:12 EST


Jeff wrote:
> Something I just thought of: ATA and SCSI hard disks do their own
> read-ahead.

Probably this is wishful thinking on my part, but I would have hoped
that most of the read-ahead they did was for stuff that happened to be
on the cylinder they were reading anyway. So long as their read-ahead
doesn't cause much extra or delayed disk head motion, what does it
matter?

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