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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:46:11 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Thu, Nov 06 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you meant by faster, so don't think I'm disagreeing
> > with you.
> 
> Faster as in "it uses DMA for everything, so you can actually burn at full 
> speed without having to worry about it or sucking up CPU".

And it doesn't do unnecessary data copies either. Not as important as
the DMA issue, but still not completely uninteresting on slower boxes.

-- 
Jens Axboe