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DateSun, 28 Mar 2004 16:56:52 +1000
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Eric D. Mudama wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28 at  9:37, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>> I think 32MB is too much. You incur latency and lose
>> scheduling grainularity. I bet returns start diminishing
>> pretty quickly after 1MB or so.
> 
> 
> 32-MB requests are the best for raw throughput.
> 
> ~15ms to land at your target location, then pure 50-60MB/sec for the .5
> seconds it takes to finish the operation. (media limited at that point)
> 
> Sure, there's more latency, but I guess that is application dependant.
> 

What about a queue depth of 2, and writing that 32MB in 1MB requests?
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