From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: [PATCH] sg: increase sglist_len of the sg_scatter_hold structure Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:13:41 -0500 Message-ID: <46B8A845.4080106@cs.wisc.edu> References: <200708051531.l75FVnjP011717@mbox.iij4u.or.jp> <46B600F4.7020601@torque.net> <20070806130944R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:43040 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758151AbXHGROn (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:14:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070806130944R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: dougg@torque.net, tomof@acm.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com 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. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html