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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC - TAKE TWO - 08/12] block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives
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Il giorno 31/mag/2014, alle ore 15:48, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> ha scritto:

> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:05:39AM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> This patch addresses this issue by not disabling device idling for
>
> This patch addresses this issue by allowing device idling for...
>
>> weight-raised queues, even if the device supports NCQ. This allows BFQ
>> to start serving a new queue, and therefore allows the drive to
>
> This disallows BFQ to start serving a new queue, and therefore the
> drive to prefetch new requests, until the idling timeout expires.
>
> Prefetch? Can you elaborate?

By prefetching I meant just queuing more than one request (by the drive). I hope that this clarifies things a little bit.

Paolo

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> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun


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Dipartimento di Fisica, Informatica e Matematica
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