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SubjectRe: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > Think of all the fairness issues we've had in the elevator code, and
> > realize that the low-level disk probably implements _none_ of those
> > fairness algorithms.
>
> I think it does, to some extent at least.

I doubt they do a very good job of it. I know of bad cases, even with
"high-end" hardware. Sure, we can hope that it's getting better, but do we
want to bet on it.

> > Hmm.. Where does it keep track of request latency for requests that have
> > been removed from the queue?
>
> Well, it doesn't...

Yeah. Which means that right now _really_ long starvation will show up as
timeouts, while other cases will just show up as bad latency.

Which will _work_, of course (assuming the timeout handling is correct,
which is a big if in itself), but it still sucks from a usability
standpoint.

Even if we drop our timeouts from 30 seconds (or whatever they are now)
down to just a few seconds, that's a _loooong_ time, and we should be a
lot more proactive about things. Audio/video stuff tends to want things
with latencies in the tenth-of-a-second range, even when they buffer
things up internally to hide the worst cases.

Linus

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