Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] take 48-bit lba a bit further | Date | Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:32:49 +0100 (BST) |
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> Thanks for taking the previous bit Alan, here's an incremental update to > 2.5.66-ac2. Just cleans up the 'when to use 48-bit lba' logic a bit per > Andries suggestion, and also expands the request size for 48-bit lba > capable drives to 512KiB. > > Works perfectly in testing here, ext2/3 generates nice big 512KiB > requests and the drive flies.
Then, don't we want to be using 48-bit lba all the time on compatible devices instead of falling back to 28-bit when possible to save a small amount of instruction overhead? (Or is that what we're doing already? I haven't really had the time to follow this thread).
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