Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA

[Jeff Garzik]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > "IOPs" are what make a lot of storage peeps excited these days, so they 
> > are being pushed in a low-latency direction anyway.
>
>
> IOPS says nothing about latency, it's still 100% throughput oriented.


In order to achieve a large IOPs number, one must sent a ton of small 
requests.  Per-request latency as well as overall throughput is a factor.

	Jeff



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