From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 08:15:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 08:14:59 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:35408 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 08:14:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:14:11 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, bcrl@redhat.com, axboe@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mostly PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (NEW VERSION) Message-ID: <20020112141411.K1482@inspiron.school.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200201112351.g0BNp8912572@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <200201112351.g0BNp8912572@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>; from pbadari@us.ibm.com on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:51:08PM -0800 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:51:08PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > + iosize = PAGE_SIZE - offset; BTW, I'd be careful with true PAGE_SIZE I/O, PAGE_SIZE can be easily as large as 32k and not every driver is been tested to digest a b_size of 32k, so I'd use 4k instead, noop for x86 so I think you won't mind to go safe here :). I'd define a RAWIO_BLOCKSIZE in iobuf.h defined to 4096. Andrea