On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:29:42PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> No, he's not.

How do you know? He has given no details AFAICT, and the description could be
a broken disk with lots of retries or PIO wdc transfers or what have you.

I agree with you, of course, that ioflush has optimization potential (and the
maxphys issue should be solved, etc.)

Martin