On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:04:51 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Rather than carrying around this buffer all the time, for rare > circumstances, it seems that we can easily alloc/free a temp buffer as > needed. > > Saves a big chunk of per-port memory. NAK. The allocation may deadlock, and if you set it not to do I/O you must then handle failure. It may be possible to get down to one buffer by serializing the use of it and proving we can always make progress but thats pretty hairy work for 512 bytes of room. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
