Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:35:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The choice of MAXPHYS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906031435150.77206-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199906032136.OAA00394@apollo.backplane.com>
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> > MAXPHYS is ultimately a limitation on the size of the b_pages array in > the struct buf structure. The default is 128 KBytes. Device Drivers are > supposed to break up I/O's into manageable sections themselves. > > Maybe when the buffer I/O / VFS subsystem is rewritten later this year > we can get rid of the artificial limitations. > please. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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