Re: 2.5.69, IDE TCQ can't be enabled

Christer Weinigel (christer@weinigel.se)
13 May 2003 00:36:48 +0200


Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:

> I don't think the multiple pending _and_ active is that big a deal, and
> besides _everybody_ uses write back caching on IDE which makes TCQ for
> writes very uninteresting.

Isn't it recommended to turn off write back caching when doing
software raid? It will be hard to guarantee the consistency of the
raid set otherwise. So I think that TCQ can be very interesting for
some loads.

/Christer

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