Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:29:07 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>"IOPs" are what make a lot of storage peeps excited these days, so they >>are being pushed in a low-latency direction anyway. > > > IOPS says nothing about latency, it's still 100% throughput oriented.
In order to achieve a large IOPs number, one must sent a ton of small requests. Per-request latency as well as overall throughput is a factor.
Jeff
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