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Mauro Andreolini authored
A set of processes may happen to perform interleaved reads, i.e.,requests whose union would give rise to a sequential read pattern. There are two typical cases: in the first case, processes read fixed-size chunks of data at a fixed distance from each other, while in the second case processes may read variable-size chunks at variable distances. The latter case occurs for example with QEMU, which splits the I/O generated by the guest into multiple chunks, and lets these chunks be served by a pool of cooperating processes, iteratively assigning the next chunk of I/O to the first available process. CFQ uses actual queue merging for the first type of rocesses, whereas it uses preemption to get a sequential read pattern out of the read requests performed by the second type of processes. In the end it uses two different mechanisms to achieve the same goal: boosting the throughput with interleaved I/O. This pa...
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