From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 21:52:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BD3368 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:52:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from ns1.feral.com (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A788FC0C for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.198.122.141] (69-170-63-75.static-ip.telepacific.net [69.170.63.75]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.feral.com (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9HLpwYK080365 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Message-ID: <507F287A.3000100@feral.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:51:54 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob Organization: Feral Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bioq_disksort() on SSDs References: <1780024492.108.1350496136356.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> In-Reply-To: <1780024492.108.1350496136356.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:52:02 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matt Jacob List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:52:08 -0000 This may be a good idea- but I think it needs a tunable. Not all SSDs actually want or should be given an 'as arrived' order of execution. So much so in fact that my $JOB is having me do log structured writes to an SSD.