From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:09:34 GMT
Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance
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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