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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/20] dm-crypt: sort writes
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:57:48 +0100
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:09:31AM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> In theory the sorting should be performed by the underlying disk scheduler,
> however, in practice the disk scheduler accepts and sorts only 128 requests.
> In order to sort more requests, we need to implement our own sorting.
 
Why 128?  Isn't this nr_requests?
(I thought we discussed this before.)

Alasdair