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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] protection information and userspace
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:29:26 +0100
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On 02/07/13 13:08, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> (My addition is for support of sg_lists to bsg, in a way that makes Tomo happy
>   I know that qemu was wanting this for a while as well as the multitude of
>   user-mode servers)

Do you think it would help / make sense if sg_alloc_table() would be 
modified such that it allocates the entire scatterlist table via one 
vmalloc() call instead of chaining several page-sized scatterlist tables 
? Note: such a change is not possible without modifying 
scsi_alloc_sgtable().

Bart.