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    SubjectRe: IO scheduler based IO controller V10
    On Fri, Oct 02 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
    > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:04:37PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
    > > > i'd say 'latency' describes it even better. 'interactivity' as a term is
    > > > a bit overladen.
    > >
    > > I'm not too crazy about it either. How about just using 'desktop' since
    > > this is obviously what we are really targetting? 'latency' isn't fully
    > > descriptive either, since it may not necessarily provide the best single
    > > IO latency (noop would).
    >
    > As Linus has already pointed out, it's not necessarily "desktop"
    > versus "server". There will be certain high frequency transaction
    > database workloads (for example) that will very much care about
    > latency. I think "low_latency" may be the best term to use.

    Not necessarily, but typically it will be. As already noted, I don't
    think latency itself is a very descriptive term for this.

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    Jens Axboe



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