On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:45 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > I wonder, do we need this call to blk_queue_dma_alignment() at all? > Does the block layer perhaps provide sufficient alignment guarantees? The block layer currently provides sector (512) byte alignment guarantees. However, there has been talk in SCSI of reducing that to word (4) since that's what most intelligent PCI controllers can cope with. If you have any alignment constraints, they should be expressed in the slave configure. James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
