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SubjectRe: Chaining sg lists for big I/O commands: Question
On May 9 2007 15:38, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I am a mdadm/disk/hard drive fanatic, I was curious:
>>
>> >On i386, we can at most fit 256 scatterlist elements into a page,
>> >and on x86-64 we are stuck with 128. So that puts us somewhere
>> >between 512kb and 1024kb for a single IO.
>>
>> How come 32bit is 256 and 64 is only 128?
>>
>> I am sure it is something very fundamental/simple but I was curious, I
>> would think x86_64 would fit/support more scatterlists in a page.
>
>Because of the size of the scatterlist structure. As pointers are bigger
>on 64-bit archs, the scatterlist structure ends up being bigger. The
>page size on x86-64 is 4kb, hence the number of structures you can fit
>in a page is smaller.

I take it this problem "goes away" on arches with 8KB page_size?


Jan
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