[4588] in linux-scsi channel archive
block device block size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Thu Aug 20 11:44:47 1998
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 20 Aug 1998 16:36:42 +0200
Apparently-To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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Hi,
any special reason why IDE (drivers/block/hd.c) are organized into
4096 bytes buffer-cache blocks, and SCSI devices (drivers/scsi/sd.c)
only in 1024 bytes buffer-cache blocks ?
is there any performance degradation, especially maybe due to the fact
that buffers will occupy a page anyway ?
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