On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:13:41AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:48:27PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> 
>  > OTOH with modern disks that have 'voice coil' head motors
>  > rather than 'stepper motors' track-track seek times are
>  > not as dependant on the number of tracks being skipped.
> 
> OTOOH, with modern disks that support tagged queueing and can
> reorder requests themselves, it's not clear we should use disksort
> at all.

With tagged queuing you can queue only a limited number of requests, much
less than what can be in the queue, so I think disksort is still usefull in
this case.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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