>>>>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:05:49 -0700, Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com> said: >> The decision has to be split across BIO and I/O MMU: only the >> BIO-level knows what to do if merging _cannot_ take place and >> only the I/O MMU code knows how to map physically discontiguous >> pages linearly into I/O MMU space. Grant> I understand the latter. Not the former. Grant> It looks like blk_recount_segments() is only used to gather Grant> stastics about how many segments are in the transaction. I Grant> tracked back to fs/bio.c to find the consumer of this Grant> information (# of segments) but didn't find it. Anyone know Grant> off hand? I think you're talking to the wrong people. If you want to change the BIO layer, talk to Jens Axboe et al. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Jun 23 18:24:15 2003
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