Hello, On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 09:41:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 03:36:46PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > > But do you actually expect there to be scalability issues around this > > buffer? Its uses are extremely short and libata operations are pretty > > strongly synchronized to begin with. > > Mostly for setups using JBODs with massive numbers of SATA disks. > > This would mostly not be ahci or a real ATA driver but libsas calling > into libata for the translation. Ah, understood. Thanks for the explanation. -- tejun -- 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