The mq policy used a lot of memory; 88 bytes per cache block on a 64
bit machine.
-smq uses 28bit indexes to implement it's data structures rather than
+smq uses 28bit indexes to implement its data structures rather than
pointers. It avoids storing an explicit hit count for each block. It
has a 'hotspot' queue, rather than a pre-cache, which uses a quarter of
the entries (each hotspot block covers a larger area than a single
Adaptability:
The mq policy maintained a hit count for each cache block. For a
-different block to get promoted to the cache it's hit count has to
+different block to get promoted to the cache its hit count has to
exceed the lowest currently in the cache. This meant it could take a
long time for the cache to adapt between varying IO patterns.