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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: dougg@torque.net, tomof@acm.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sg: increase sglist_len of the sg_scatter_hold structure
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:13:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B8A845.4080106@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070806130944R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> Allocating 64K contiguous memory is not good so the next thing to do
> is converting sg to use the sg chaining support fully. Or it might be

For LLDs like aic7xxx, I think we are stuck with a small 
scsi_host_template->sg_tablesize, so to continue to get large requests 
like before will we have to still allocate large segments?

Is block/scsi_ioctl.c converted to sg chaining in any tree yet? Is that 
in your tree or one of Jen's branches.

> time to finish the overdue task, to convert sg to use the block layer
> functions.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 15:31 [PATCH] sg: increase sglist_len of the sg_scatter_hold structure FUJITA Tomonori
2007-08-05 16:55 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-08-06  4:09   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-08-07 17:13     ` Mike Christie [this message]
2007-08-07 22:38       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-08-08  7:15         ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-08 16:58         ` Mike Christie
2007-08-08 17:20           ` Mike Christie
2007-08-09  7:33             ` Benny Halevy
2007-08-09 13:43             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-08-09 13:43           ` FUJITA Tomonori

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