Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:33:09 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 Message-ID: <199608232333.QAA13220@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> "Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940" (Aug 23, 3:44pm)
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On Aug 23, 3:44pm, "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: } Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 } I've also implemented bowrite which } converts sync writes to ordered async writes giving around a 10% } improvement on some of the ad-hoc benchmarks I've tried. Its not as fast } as mounting async (that does delayed writes), but I'll take a safe 10% } improvement any day. This isn't really hardware related, but I think the "soft updates" stuff mentioned in http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/CSE-TR-254-95.ps.Z would be quite nice to have. I just looked in the papers directory and a number of the other titles appear quite interesting. --- Truck
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