Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Thu, 8 May 2003 16:51:44 +0200


On Thu, May 08 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> that for now. It _is_ essentially two seperate issues, right? One is
> getting good request sizes on 48-bit commands, the other is taking some
> decent advantage of 48-bit commands.

That came out totally wrong :-)

One issue is getting good request sizes on 48-bit commands (ie taking
advantage of 48-bit commands). The other issue, which I left out, is
cutting 48-bit lba overhead by not using it when not necessary. The
attached patch deals with the former issue, obviously.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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