linux-kernel - Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704261058050.3263@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:58:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I can't possibly believe any of this is about the cost of processing
> a request, but rather the problem that some devices don't have a large
> enough pool of requests to keep them busy if you submit the requests
> in a 4K page sizes.
> 
> This all sounds like a device design issue rather than anything more
> significant, and it doesn't sound like a long term trend.  Market
> pressure should fix the hardware.

Sounds like we are dictating device manufacturers how to 
design their devices instead of leaving them choice.

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