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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_physio.c src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys conf.h 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909221352030.581-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <35615.938033333@critter.freebsd.dk>

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> 
> >Should si_iosize_max be cognizant of all limitations (e.g., HBA DMA
> >limitations)?
> 
>..
> 
> The right description of this field really might be "a transaction
> larger than this size cannot be carried out in one operation, so
> don't bother clustering more than that."

Yes, that's what I was looking for. It'd be nice to have flags too, I
suppose, that allow the device driver to say "don't prefetch". 


> >Can si_iosize_max be a sized integer?
> 
> If by this you mean that it should be number of DEV_BSIZE sectors the
> answer is no, there is/should be nothing which limit us to sectors
> of DEV_BSIZE (think audio CDs).  I don't think a transaction size
> limit of ~1GB is going to be a limitation in the near future.

Naw, I was just being picky- all things that declare a size should be
specific about the size... :-)





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