From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: libata .sg_tablesize: why always dividing by 2 ?
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:28:29 -0500
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> As an aside, ISTR tomo-san was working on eliminating the need for the 
> "/2" by tackling the details on the IOMMU side...
..

Yes, tomo-san just led a nice detailed discussion of it here at LSF'08,
and he agrees that even today it shouldn't affect us that way.

Cheers