From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata: clustering on or off?
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:09:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050828150933.GV4018@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050828145806.GA22634@infradead.org>
On Sun, Aug 28 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Agree, we should just remove the ability to control clustering, as it
> > really overlaps with the segment settings anyways.
>
> What are we going to do with iscsi then? It really doesn't like segments
> over a pages size. Best thing would probably be to switch networking to
> use sg lists and dma_map_sg, but that's not a trivial task.
Limit the segment size, then. There are provisions for doing both length
and boundary limits, that should suffice.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-28 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-28 9:42 libata: clustering on or off? Jeff Garzik
2005-08-28 10:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-28 14:20 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-28 14:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-28 15:09 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-08-28 17:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-28 18:01 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-29 15:56 ` Mark Lord
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