On Tue, Jun 07 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > 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? I was planning on trying a block tree out, let me try and merge it first and look it over if you don't mind. -- Jens Axboe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
