Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:56:34 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 |
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:17:40 +1000 David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> wrote:
> > Fix up your lameo HBA for reads. > > Where did that come from? You spend 20 lines described the inefficiencies > of the readahead in the page cache and it should be fixed but then you > turn around and say fix the HBA?
My (repeated) point is that if we populate pagecache with physically-contiguous 4k pages in this manner then bio+block will be able to create much larger SG lists. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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