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Message-ID: <ed038eb20904240737u4d248b63s580f7d4d1831e173@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:37:17 +0200
From:	Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@...g.uio.no>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	rwheeler@...hat.com, snitzer@...hat.com, neilb@...e.de,
	James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com, dgilbert@...erlog.com,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, matthew@....cx, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2 of 9] block: Export I/O topology for block devices and 
	partitions

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:32, Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com> wrote:
> +What:          /sys/block/<disk>/alignment
> +What:          /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment
> +What:          /sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size
> +What:          /sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size

Would it also be possible and useful to include the number of
spindles/channels, i.e., how many requests the device can handle
concurrently?  CFQ could for example serve two time slices
concurrently if you have sequential reads and the device reports two
spindles.

[sorry for replying in the middle of the thread, but I didn't get the
original email]
-- 
mvh
Carl Henrik
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