Subject: Re: kern/2679: addition of seek stat
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/11/1996 20:13:43
>Charles Hannum mentioned to be in passing some months ago that an implied 
>seek in disksort() might be appropriate (when disksort() rewinds to the 
>beginning of the queue).  However, this too would skew the metrics of 
>disks that do independent seeks.

Devices that support tagged queueing shouldn't use disksort.  I don't know
how you can properly determine the number of seeks for ZBR disks unless
the SCSI spec provides this type of statistic in one of the mode pages.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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