O> writes, and sending down multiple untagged cached writes that complete > immediately and actually hit the disk later? Either way the host keeps > sending writes to the disk until it's buffers are full, and the disk is > constantly trying to commit those buffers to the media in the most > optimal order. On the controller side primarily you get to queue commands which means you don't have a dead time period between the completion interrupt and the next command being issued. Those times add up even when there is a disk cache buffering the output - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
