tagged queueing
tagged queueing
(hardware)Tagged queueing can speed up processing considerably if acontroller serves devices of very different speeds, such as anSCSI controller serving a mix of CD-ROMs and high-speeddisks. In such cases if a request to fetch data from theCD-ROM is shortly followed by a request to read from the disk,the controller doesn't have to wait for the CD-ROM to fetchthe data, it can instead instruct the disk to fetch the dataand return the value to the device driver, while the CD-ROM isprobably still seeking.