Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/33] SG table chaining support | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:23:10 -0400 |
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>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:
John> Will this help out tape drive performance at all? I looked John> through the patches quickly, esp the AIC7xxx stuff since that's John> what I use, but nothing jumped out at me...
Yes. Most modern tape drives want a block size of 1MB or higher. With the old stack we'd be stuck at 512KB because the sg limitations caused us to come just short of 1MB...
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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