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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] ide-tape: improve buffer allocation strategy
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Hi,

On Saturday 29 March 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Instead of allocating pages for the buffer one by one, take advantage of the
> buddy alloc system and request them 2^order at a time. This increases the chance
> for bigger buffer parts to be contigious and reduces loop iteration count. While
> at it, rename function __idetape_kmalloc_stage() to ide_tape_kmalloc_buffer().
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>

applied patches #1-4


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