Re: Don't Understand wait() and notify()
SadRed wrote:
On Mar 29, 1:31 pm, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
SadRed wrote:
On Mar 29, 1:03 pm, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
SadRed wrote:
...> (Local file system access can't be but sequential. So, multi-
threading on
them is futile, though.)
...
Why must local file system access be sequential?
Patricia
Oh sorry. I didn't know that you use a multi-head hard disk device!
You still seem to be implying that local file system access is limited
to one device. I've worked with systems that had dozens of disk drives.
However, even if there is only one disk head, getting multiple I/O's
issued can enable disk head movement optimization. If the I/Os are
issued one at a time, the drive has to do them in that order, which is
not necessarily an efficient order.
Patricia
I've worked with systems that had dozens of disk drives.
And they had supported parallel I/Os. How gorgeous!
I was one of the developers of the Sun E10000. With up to 64 processors,
we needed far higher I/O bandwidth and transaction rate than we could
have got out of a single I/O path. I don't think we ever even thought
about sequential local file system access as a design option.
Patricia
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