From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PRD_ENTRIES is 256
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:18:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040225131817.GK693@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402251411.13945.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Wednesday 25 of February 2004 10:53, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> PRD_ENTRIES is specified to be precisely 256; on platforms where
>> PAGE_SIZE varies from 4KB the calculation in the current expression
>> defining it is inaccurate, which may cause crashes. This patch changes
>> it to the constant literal 256.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Ok, thanks. However I cannot find 256 entries limit in any ATA document
> and from looking at the code 512 entries shouldn't be a problem (?).
> --bart
The numbers I'm fishing out of things say that the PRD table can't
exceed 64KB in size as it can't cross a 64KB boundary and its length
is specified as a 16-bit byte count, so some other method of sizing
the thing may be in order. I do recall something went wrong at the
time I ran into this. If I turn up where I thought the number 256 came
from I'll cite it.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-25 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-25 9:53 PRD_ENTRIES is 256 William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-25 13:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-25 13:18 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-02-25 16:15 ` Jeff Garzik
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