Re: disk performance still wrecked in 2.4!

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Jun 30 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> there is an ata patch that allows for setting the elevator to "noop"
> at compile time only, plus a few other fixes.

... which makes performance even worse on disk I/O. The noop 'elevator'
is mainly meant to be used for intelligent I/O devices that have no
benefit from request reordering. Even on a decent SCSI disk with a
TCQ depth of 32, the noop elevator still performs considerably worse
than a strict ascending sorter.

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* Jens Axboe <[e-mail]>
* SuSE Labs