From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: willy@linux.intel.com (Matthew Wilcox) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:35:00 -0400 Subject: SGL support of driver In-Reply-To: <20150727165756.GA8847@infradead.org> References: <20150727163123.GA5034@infradead.org> <20150727165756.GA8847@infradead.org> Message-ID: <20150728143500.GX13681@linux.intel.com> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015@09:57:56AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > It also requires pagecache I/O to be split into multiple commands > where other block devices can handle it a lot more efficiently. Wait, what? pagecache I/O is page aligned and page sized. That can always be represented by a PRP list.