Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:27:57 +0000 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Avoiding fragmentation through different allocator |
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> It is not the driver per se, but the way the memory which is the I/O > source/target is presented to the driver. In linux there is a good > chance it will have to use more scatter gather elements to represent > the same amount of data.
Note that a change made a few month ago after seeing issues with aacraid means it's much more likely to see contingous memory, there were some numbers on linux-scsi and/or linux-kernel.
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