Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:59:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, 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: <35712.938033969@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:53:37 PDT." <199909222053.NAA20220@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <199909222053.NAA20220@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: >:>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. >: >:-- >:Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > > This is true for raw devices, but not true for anything that runs through > the VM system or buffer cache. but as anyone can see from the commit message this affected physio so clearly char devices are involved :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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