Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 13:59:19 EST


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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