Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kiobuf using kernel pages | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:08:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> primarily useful for high-performance disk I/O (e.g. for Oracle) > which is not a strength of IDE/EIDE/UDMA devices, and > the block device can always be used on IDE devices, it's just > slower (and may affect the page cache behavior).
The highest performance I/O devices we support right now are not SCSI interfaced at the Linux<->PCI level. Neither the DPT Millenium in I2O block mode or the DAC960 are presenting SCSI interfaces.
Alan
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