From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: libata+SGIO: is .dma_boundary respected?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:46:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060321194649.GR4285@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142970206.3428.12.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
On Tue, Mar 21 2006, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:38 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Strongly agreed. ISTR JamesB had some concrete thoughts in that
> > direction, but they never made it beyond an IRC channel and/or a few
> > emails.
>
> Actually, I had a patch for it ... but it never really went anywhere.
> The argument being that the machines which would actually need it didn't
> use IDE anyway ...
Do <insert random device here> really never have segment or boundary
restrictions outside of IDE? Seems to me that supporting that would be
the conservative and sane thing to do.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-21 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-19 20:48 libata+SGIO: is .dma_boundary respected? Mark Lord
2006-03-19 21:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-19 21:19 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-19 21:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-19 21:45 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-19 21:54 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 1:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21 4:43 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 6:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21 13:59 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 18:42 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-21 19:18 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 19:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21 19:31 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 19:33 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 19:35 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-21 19:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21 19:42 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-21 19:43 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-21 19:46 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-03-21 20:44 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-21 21:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-03-21 19:31 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-21 19:36 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 19:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21 20:51 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-22 11:25 ` Tejun Heo
2006-03-22 14:52 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 1:15 ` Jeff Garzik
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