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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/13] scsi: unify allocation of scsi command and sense buffer
On Mon, May 25 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 01:33:42PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > 1. If we have a machine with few type of hosts active each with it's own
> > cmnd_slab we end up with many more slabs then today. Even though at the
> > end they all happen to be of the same size. (With the pool reserves it
> > can get big also).
>
> Note that this should be optional. Device not having their own
> per-command structure would continue using the global pools. Those
> that have their own per-command structures already have their own pools
> anyway.

The multiple pools of the same size "issue" can also easily be resolved
by having SCSI provide a way to setup/destroy these pools. Then it can
just reuse an existing pool, if it has the same size.

However, I doubt that this is really a real life issue that's worth
worrying about.

--
Jens Axboe



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