From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263946AbTDNXwo (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:52:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263968AbTDNXwo (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:52:44 -0400 Received: from dialup-139.156.221.203.acc50-nort-cbr.comindico.com.au ([203.221.156.139]:21252 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263946AbTDNXwn (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:52:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3E9B4C6B.5020905@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:03:55 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry? References: <200304141731_MC3-1-3462-2342@compuserve.com> In-Reply-To: <200304141731_MC3-1-3462-2342@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chuck Ebbert wrote: >Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>There is (in AS) no cost function further than comparing distance >>from the head. Closest forward seek wins. >> > > > The RAID1 code has its own scheduler that does similar things. Why >aren't they being integrated? (See raid1.c:read_balance()) > If RAID1 can use the generic elevator then it should. I guess it can't though.