From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: tonyb@cybernetics.com
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
'Mike Christie' <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
'device-mapper development' <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
'linux-scsi' <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
'Jens Axboe' <axboe@suse.de>,
LIRANS@il.ibm.com
Subject: RE: [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:34:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118162097.4813.38.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007901c56b65$90f918c0$e0019d89@cybernetics.com>
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 09:34 -0400, Tony Battersby wrote:
> My company (Cybernetics) sells several products that run embedded Linux
> which use the userspace scatter-gather capability of the SG driver.
> They are still running the 2.4 kernel series, but we will probably
> switch to 2.6 at some point.
What do they actually use it for? As in why is the data scattered even
in the virtual address space?
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-07 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-04 1:19 [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers Mike Christie
2005-06-04 16:07 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05 7:15 ` Mike Christie
2005-06-05 9:41 ` [dm-devel] " christophe varoqui
2005-06-06 13:31 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-07 0:04 ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 7:01 ` [dm-devel] " Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-05 14:40 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05 19:11 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-06 5:43 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-06 14:19 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 13:08 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-07 13:34 ` Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 16:34 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-06-07 18:38 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all blockpc " Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 18:43 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 15:59 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc " James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:26 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 7:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-06 19:02 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-07 15:26 ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 18:23 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-08 15:41 ` Mike Christie
2005-06-09 0:08 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-09 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-09 11:51 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-09 11:54 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-07 12:20 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 15:36 ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 15:45 ` [dm-devel] " Michael Christie
2005-06-07 16:26 ` Kai Makisara
2005-06-07 19:23 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-08 12:46 ` Mike Christie
2005-06-07 18:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:38 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 3:00 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-08 12:59 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 14:50 ` Luben Tuikov
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