- ...blocking1
- In this paper, we refer to blocking
as the waiting time.
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- ... systems2
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values are likely to vary in the future. Semi-preemptible IO provides a
technique that does not deter disk preemptibility with the increased IO
sizes.
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- ... sub-optimal3
- We have not fully
investigated the reasons for sub-optimal disk performance and it is the subject
of our future work.
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buffer4
- If the size of the write IO is larger than the size of
the write buffer, then the disk signals the end of the IO as soon as
the excess amount of data (which cannot be fitted into the disk buffer)
has been written to the disk media.
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