On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 09:27 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > In my original patchkit I didn't have blk_kmalloc etc. but just relied > > on the block layer bouncing everything for ISA as needed, but James > > thought it was important that SCSI LUN scan etc do not bounce for ISA. > > That is when I came up with these helpers. > > > > You think it should go back to always bouncing? That would be fine > > for me too. With that they wouldn't be needed. > > I don't see a reason for not bouncing for scanning - James? If we didn't know the allocation mask, or it was hard to get, then yes, I'd agree. However, I think that any time the kernel has the device mask available, it should actually use it for an allocation to avoid bouncing. 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
