Re: queue_nr_requests needs to be selective

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:03:22 +0000 (GMT)

> I don't immediately see why increasing the queue length should
> increase bandwidth in this manner. One possibility is that

Latency on the controllers ? With caches on the controller and disks you
can have a lot of requests actually in flight

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