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From: Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>
To: Timothy Miller <tmiller10@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?
Date: 14 Apr 2003 13:27:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050344844.1156.8.camel@arlx248.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001301c30145$5ff85fb0$6801a8c0@epimetheus>

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:46, Timothy Miller wrote:

> So, what if one were to write a program which would perform a bunch of
> seek-time tests to estimate an IDE disk's physical geometry?  It could then
> make that information available to the kernel to use to reorder accesses
> more optimally.

Greg Ganger et al. have done some recent work in this area:

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/stray/freeblocks_abs.html
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/stray/traxtent_abs.html

-- 
Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-14 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-12 22:46 Timothy Miller
2003-04-12 23:10 ` AW: " Oliver S.
2003-04-13  9:51 ` John Bradford
2003-04-13 11:50 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 15:25   ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-14  3:52     ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14  6:44       ` Mark Hahn
2003-04-14 13:28         ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-13 16:15   ` John Bradford
2003-04-18 13:01     ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-18 13:25       ` John Bradford
2003-04-14 18:27 ` Wes Felter [this message]
2003-04-13 18:03 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 18:24 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 18:32   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-04-13 18:51     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 22:14   ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14  0:17     ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-13 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14  3:58   ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 22:13 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 23:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-14  2:29 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-14  3:44 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-14 21:27 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15  0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15  1:19 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15  8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 18:33 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16  1:16 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-16  1:59   ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-16 13:28 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 23:06 ` Nick Piggin

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