Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] ide-tape: improve buffer allocation strategy | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:32:29 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Instead of allocating pages for the buffer one by one, take advantage of the > buddy alloc system and request them 2^order at a time. This increases the chance > for bigger buffer parts to be contigious and reduces loop iteration count. While > at it, rename function __idetape_kmalloc_stage() to ide_tape_kmalloc_buffer(). > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
applied patches #1-4
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