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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:58:01 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@....com>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> Subject: Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:43:28 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:56:34 -0700 > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:17:40 +1000 David Chinner <dgc@....com> wrote: > > > > > > Fix up your lameo HBA for reads. > > > > > > Where did that come from? You spend 20 lines described the inefficiencies > > > of the readahead in the page cache and it should be fixed but then you > > > turn around and say fix the HBA? > > > > My (repeated) point is that if we populate pagecache with physically-contiguous 4k > > pages in this manner then bio+block will be able to create much larger SG lists. > > Also remember that even if you do larger pages by using virtual pairs or > quads of real pages because it helps on some systems you end up needing > the same sized sglist as before so you don't make anything worse for > half-assed controllers as you get the same I/O size providing they have > the minimal 2 or 4 sg list entries (and those that don't are genuinely > beyond saving and nowdays very rare) > Could you expand on that a bit please? I don't get it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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