Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Mark Lord wrote: > > The big difference here, is that a single SATA controller in a system > > can have up to eight quasi-independent ports. So when we lock, we block > > activity on all 8 interfaces, rather than just the one we care about. > > ...hence the mention of multi-port NICs. Multi port nics typically have one spinlock per port though, don't they? -Andi -- 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
