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What happened to disk performance in 2.6.39

What happened to disk performance in 2.6.39

Posted Feb 3, 2012 4:54 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: What happened to disk performance in 2.6.39 by dlang
Parent article: What happened to disk performance in 2.6.39

> Networks have the same type of problem

It would be interesting to see more sharing of notes between network and disk IO systems because some of the problems they solve are broadly similar. IO throughput and contention behaviors are a matter of science and I'm sure share a lot of math.


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What happened to disk performance in 2.6.39

Posted Feb 20, 2012 23:35 UTC (Mon) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]

Networking does have this same concept build into tcp called Nagle's algorithm.

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