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Date:      Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:16:14 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: speeding up ugen by an order of magnitude. 
Message-ID:  <33631.1089191774@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:13:12 %2B0200." <20040707091311.GE12877@cicely12.cicely.de> 

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In message <20040707091311.GE12877@cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:
>On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:32:28PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

>What about those options:
>- limit the allocated memory to the user request so we don't take the
>  whole 128k if not reuired.
>- Do interleaving with 2 or more xfers if the read request is known to
>  take more xfers.

I would consider ugen to be a primary candidate to use physio like
I belive scsi-tape drives do ?

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