Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

From: Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 06:50:41 EST


> (High end i2o controllers can take 4000 commands at a time from the OS, sort
> them, merge them do read/write ordering, disk scheduling and cache optimisation
> they do not need the OS doing elevator, merging and other stuff.)

Nice. But I may have a disk with some journalled and some
none-journalled
filesystems on it. Will these controllers reorder non-journalled data
in the optimal order while not messing up the order for journal
operations?
Or is the os still needed for that?

Helge Hafting

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