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> In the time of one disk seek plus half rotational latency > (12 ms) you can do a pretty large amount of reading (>400kB). > This means that for near and medium disk seeks you don't care > all that much about how large the submitted IO is. Track buffers > further reduce this importance. This isn't always true. Removable devices usually have a quite low seek time compared to their raw transfer rate. Bye. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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