Re: [Fwd: Re: mysterious dbench results]

[Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 21 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Ooooh! kiobuf-sized buffer-head requests are now allowed? Cool! :^)
> > 
> > They can grow arbitrarily big, only limited by limitations of the
> > low level driver. But the reason max_segments is gone is because
> 
> Just there seem to be lots of drivers that cannot deal with big requests. 

This is only a problem for the kiobufs, the buffer_head requests can
be limited to whatever the driver wants.

-- 
Jens Axboe