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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Impact of no_lba48{_dma} = 1 ?
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:11:49 +0000
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On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:49:44 +0300
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Alan wrote:
> 
> >>>Only relevant for DMA really
> 
> >>So rqsize is only needed for DMA accesses?
> 
>     Not really, it affects both PIO and DMA.

Yes but its not relevant. The question was about performance, and your
performance will suck equally with PIO regardless of the request size
limit.

Alan