Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Apr 28 2007 - 04:18:01 EST


On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:27:45PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> And that wasn't due to the 128 sg limit?

No, that was due to aacraid really liking sg lists as small as possible
where every entry covers areas as big as possible. The driver really
liked physical merging once wli changed the page allocator to return
pages in the right order.

> I guess 10% isn't a small amount. Though it would be nice to have
> before/after numbers for Linux.

I'll try to find the old thread.

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