Re: [PATCH 1/5] ide-tape: improve buffer allocation strategy

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 17:50:52 EST



Hi,

On Saturday 29 March 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Instead of allocating pages for the buffer one by one, take advantage of the
> buddy alloc system and request them 2^order at a time. This increases the chance
> for bigger buffer parts to be contigious and reduces loop iteration count. While
> at it, rename function __idetape_kmalloc_stage() to ide_tape_kmalloc_buffer().
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>

applied patches #1-4
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