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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > > I do feel larger blocksizes continue to make sense in general though. Packet > writing on CD/DVD is a problem already today since the hardware needs 32K or > 64K blocks and I'd expect to see more of these and similiar situations when > flash gets (even) more popular which it sort of inevitably is going to be. .. that's what scatter-gather exists for. What's so hard with just realizing that physical memory isn't contiguous? It's why we have MMU's. It's why we have scatter-gather. Linus - 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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