Re: About SG Elements of request_buffer

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On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 22:03 +1000, Aboo Valappil wrote:
> 1. Is it safe to assume that all the SG elements of request_buffer are 
> page aligned? (Except the first one and last one),  I mean, it is always 
> multiple of pages?

No.

It's an artifact of block sector size >= PAGE_SIZE and the access method
only using pages.  It isn't even true of ext3 which does its metadata
through the buffer cache.

James


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