Re: Block device strategy and requests

Malcolm Beattie wrote: > I'm designing a block device driver for a high performance disk > subsystem with unusual characteristics. To what extent is the > limited number of "struct request"s (128 by default) necessary for > back-pressure? With this I/O subsystem it would be possible for the > str

Block device strategy and requests

I'm designing a block device driver for a high performance disk subsystem with unusual characteristics. To what extent is the limited number of "struct request"s (128 by default) necessary for back-pressure? With this I/O subsystem it would be possible for the strategy function to rip the requests

Re: Block device strategy and requests

On Thu, Apr 26 2001, Malcolm Beattie wrote: > I'm designing a block device driver for a high performance disk > subsystem with unusual characteristics. To what extent is the > limited number of "struct request"s (128 by default) necessary for > back-pressure? With this I/O subsystem it would be po