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Re: Request splits

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu May 18 09:59:18 2000

To: eric@andante.org (Eric Youngdale)
Date:	Thu, 18 May 2000 14:50:02 +0100 (BST)
Cc: dgilbert@interlog.com (Douglas Gilbert),
	bapper@piratehaven.org (Brian Pomerantz), linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <008c01bfc0cf$97784c70$4d0310ac@fairfax.datafocus.com> from "Eric Youngdale" at May 18, 2000 09:47:21 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

>     I don't think there are other issues with increasing the limit.  For
> that matter, I am not entirely sure why there is this arbitrary limit in the
> code here.  In other words, I am not sure if I even added it - it may have
> gotten added by someone else as part of the ll_rw_blk cleanups.

The sglist itself presumably has a size limit and we would need to keep the
sg list allocation under a page.



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