Il giorno 31/mag/2014, alle ore 15:48, Tejun Heo <t...@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 > > Thanks. > > -- > tejun -- Paolo Valente Algogroup Dipartimento di Fisica, Informatica e Matematica Via Campi, 213/B 41125 Modena - Italy homepage: http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
