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From: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Need some explanations in regard to memory alignment of requests that a block device receives
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:08:14 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <728075.56624.qm@web37602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281706071.4160.18.camel@maxim-laptop>

> 
> However I am opting in to allow to receive requests that
> have many
> sectors span several memory regions, and be in highmem).
> The request is converted to scatterlist upon which I
> operate.
> (Untill this point I did the same think Alex does in
> mspro_blk.c)
> 

If you'll look at what is actually there you'll see that neither of your
questions poses a real problem. But, of course, block layer is more
conservative, for what I can tell.



      

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-14  7:08 UTC|newest]

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2010-08-13 13:27 Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-14  7:08 ` Alex Dubov [this message]

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