From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Sanket Rathi <sanket.rathi@cdac.ernet.in>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bounce Buffer Patch
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:09:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020517060955.GS11948@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10205171118320.17118-100000@mailhub.cdac.ernet.in>
On Fri, May 17 2002, Sanket Rathi wrote:
> I have read about bounce buffer and understand.
> but from where i can get the code of that patch and how it internally
> works.
You mean the patch to avoid bounce buffering? Andrea has an uptodate
version here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19pre8aa3/00_block-highmem-all-18b-11.gz
In short, it does its magic by not relying on the virtual mapping of a
given page. If you want more info than that, you'll have to ask more
qualified questions.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-17 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-17 5:50 Bounce Buffer Patch Sanket Rathi
2002-05-17 6:09 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-05-17 15:16 ` Sanket Rathi
2002-05-17 15:16 ` Sanket Rathi
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