Yes it's one request for a non-contig range, or a number of contig ones.
It isn't quite clear that this is always a good thing. Since we are
moving request from the sorted list, there's a chance that even though
serving X and then X+1 will incur a seek, it will be a small one. But
for now, yes, a seek is a seek and 16 is equal to seek_cost and
therefore it will be just the one.
> Would you like to make it tunable from user space somehow?
Yes of course, that has been the plan all along. I'm in fact doing that
right now.
> Since Adam already noticed, that there might not be a "perfect"
> value for all, this is the logical next step.
Noone ever questioned the fact that these tunables should in fact be
tunable.
> PS: If you update, please consider an update of your comments
> there, too ;-)
Patch is sent hours ago, and I did.
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