>- If bdflush were to sort the buffer chain when woken, before flushing some
>buffers to disk, the gains would be obvious. On a SCSI sub-system, this
The kernel just try to do that. bdflush queues lots of requests in the
ll_rw_block layer and then when the I/O is started all such requests gets
sorted before being sent to the hardware disk controller.
Andrea
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