From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 20 16:31:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825F537BAAA; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:31:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03921; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003210033.QAA03921@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I/O clustering, Re: patches for test / review In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:53:17 PST." <20000320125317.E14789@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:33:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just as a perhaps interesting aside on this topic; it'd be quite neat for controllers that understand scatter/gather to be able to simply suck N regions of buffer cache which were due for committing directly into an S/G list... (wishlist item, I guess 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message