Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) | From | Nathan Scott <> | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:45:32 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > There is *no* valid reason for 16kB blocksizes unless you have legacy > issues.
That's not correct.
> The performance issues have nothing to do with the block-size, and
We must be thinking of different performance issues.
> should be solvable by just making sure that your stupid "state of the > art" > crap SCSI controller gets contiguous physical memory, which is best > done > in the read-ahead code.
SCSI controllers have nothing to do with improving ondisk layout, which is the performance issue I've been referring to.
cheers.
-- Nathan
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