Re: patches for test / review

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:54:58PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > Hm. But I'd think that even with modern drives a smaller number of bigger
> > I/Os is preferable over lots of very small I/Os.
> 
> Not necessarily. It depends upon overhead costs per-i/o. With larger I/Os, you
> do pay in interference costs (you can't transfer data for request N because
> the 256Kbytes of request M is still in the pipe).

OK. 256K might be a bit on the high side. 

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Wilko Bulte                     Arnhem, The Netherlands   
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