Jens> A repost of this patchset, which adds support forchaining of sg Jens> tables. This enables much larger IO commands, since we don't Jens> have to allocate large consecutive pieces of memory to represent Jens> the sgtable of a huge command. Right now Linux is limited to Jens> somewhere between 128 and 256 segments, depending on the Jens> architecture. This translates into at most 512k-1mb request Jens> sizes. With this patchset, I've successfully pushed 10MiB Jens> commands through the IO stack.
Will this help out tape drive performance at all? I looked through the patches quickly, esp the AIC7xxx stuff since that's what I use, but nothing jumped out at me... John - 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/
