On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 20:07 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Why multi-bio? No one should ever have to build a request with multiple > bio's in one go, that's pointless. The only reason multi-bio requests > exist is because of the file systems not submitting big extents in one > submission. The whole io path would be faster and simpler were it not > for multi-bio requests :-) OK, OK, sorry thinko ... I meant multi-biovec (which can be a single bio) ... however, I'm not the only one who keeps being confused by this ... Incidentally, do I take it you're happy with all of this and I can take (at least the block pieces) through the SCSI tree? Mike, I won't taking the dm-multipath patch unless there's agreement from Alasdair. James
