Re: How git affects kernel.org performance

From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2007, 01:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20070108170934.dafc5b81.pj@sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <45A24A65.1070706@garzik.org>

Jeff wrote:

> Something I just thought of:  ATA and SCSI hard disks do their own
> read-ahead.

Probably this is wishful thinking on my part, but I would have hoped that most of the read-ahead they did was for stuff that happened to be on the cylinder they were reading anyway. So long as their read-ahead doesn't cause much extra or delayed disk head motion, what does it matter?

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