Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:10:26 +1100 | Subject | Re: [BLOCK] phys_contig implies hw_contig | From | Herbert Xu <> |
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On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:47:34PM +1100, herbert wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:45:47PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Your analysis assumes that phys contig implies hw contig, I > > believe it does not. There may be limitations in the VMERGE > > mechanism a platform implements that causes this situation to > > arise. > > OK, if that's the case, then we better change blk_recount_segments > as it assumes this.
Bug David that can't be right. If two segments are physically contiguous, then they don't need to be remapped to be virtually continguous, right? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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