Re: [RFT] Support for ~2144 SCSI discs

From: Alan Cox (alan@bagpuss.swansea.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2001 - 15:34:11 EST


> In previous experiments trying to connect up to 512 devices we switched to
> vmalloc because the static nature of sd.c's allocation exceeds 128k which
> I assumed was the max for kmalloc YMMV.

vmalloc is fine, but for large sets of disks sd should be disk object
pointers instead, and a 32bit dev_t migration will be needed anyway
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