anticipatory I/O scheduling

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:12:51PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> I just ran across this paper and started wondering why I'd never heard
> of it before:
> 
> <URL:http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/r/antsched/>
> 
> To summarize, the authors rewrote the I/O scheduling algorithm in
> FreeBSD 4.3 and got massive performance improvements for Apache, and
> smaller but noticeable improvements for AFS and TPC-B.
> 
> Has anyone looked into this?

yes.... but what exactly do you want to know :)

cheers
luigi