The CFQ "low latency" mode

Posted Oct 13, 2009 18:06 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: The CFQ "low latency" mode by giraffedata
Parent article: The CFQ "low latency" mode

it's not necessarily as different as you are making it out to be.

remember that seeks are _expensive_, you can transfer a LOT of data in the time of one seek that you can avoid doing.

so throughput optimizations like this can be relevant to the total disk response capabilities.