On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:38:30AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Or good grounds to increase the sg limit and push for io controller > manufacturers to do the same. If we have a hack in the kernel that > mostly works, they won't.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:38:30AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Page colouring was always rejected, and lots of people who knew > better got upset because it was the only way the hardware would go > fast... Yes, stunning wisdom there. Reject the speedups. On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:38:30AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > You could put it that way. Or that it is wrong because of the > fragmenatation problem. Realise that it is somewhat fundamental > considering that it is basically an unsolvable problem with our > current kernel assumptions of unconstrained kernel allocations and > a 1:1 kernel mapping. Depends on what you consider a solution. A broadly used criterion is that improves performance significantly in important usage cases. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
