Brendan Hide posted on Mon, 05 May 2014 08:55:55 +0200 as excerpted: > You are 100% right, though. The scale is very small. By negligible, the > "penalty" is at most a few CPU cycles. When compared to the wait time on > a spindle, it really doesn't matter much.
The analogy I've used before is that of taking a trip (which the data effectively is, between the device and the CPU). We've booked a 10-day cruise and are now debating what we plan on taking to and from the boarding dock. Will taking the local bus with a couple of transfers, or a taxi that will take us there in one trip but there's road construction and thus a detour, or a helicopter to fly directly, get us back from the cruise faster? Obviously, taking the helicopter (at least for the return leg) will get us back a bit faster, but we're talking perhaps a couple hours difference at the end of a 10 day cruise! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
