Subject: Re: New device buffer queue strategy
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-perform
Date: 09/04/2002 13:37:28
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:12:19PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > Ho, I didn't say it shouldn't be done, I just said it was not the best
 > fix for the raidframe problem :)

It could actually turn out to be quite a good thing for the "raidframe
problem".

Consider the case of writing two full stripes worth of data... as the
second stripe comes around, you're going to end up with adjacent requests
for the underlying components, no?  (This would certainly be the case
with RAID-0.)

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