Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:33:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) |
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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.
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