Ron Mayer wrote: > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> At the CMG meeting I asked the disk drive engineers, "well, if the >> drives are doing the scheduling, why does Linux go to all the trouble?" >> Their answer was something like, "smart disk drives are a relatively >> recent invention." But > > One more reason? > I imagine the disk drives wouldn't be aware of IO scheduling classes > and priorities ( http://linux.die.net/man/1/ionice ), while I imagine > the linux I/O schedulers should. > Thanks!! I see I have much to learn. Jens Axboe is one of my heroes, BTW -- he's half of the blktrace team. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
