Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:22:28 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ufs is too slow? Message-ID: <199611120422.XAA03836@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199611120407.UAA13128@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Nov 11, 96 08:07:07 pm
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> > Yes, please get rid of the locked buffer stuff. That code is EVIL. > > BTW,do you have any plans for removing the 64k I/O limitation? It sorta > sucks when you want to write a 1meg segment to have to cut it up into such > small pieces. > You have always hated that!!! I plan to do something to create alternate mappings: segments. Segments will probably use a yet to be enhanced VM/Buffer cache pbuf mechanism (not to be confused with VJ's networking pbufs.) There will be no 64K limitation as such. I am still listening to "bright ideas" though :-). John
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