Re: [RFT] Support for ~2144 SCSI discs

Alan Cox (alan@bagpuss.swansea.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:34:11 -0400 (EDT)

> In previous experiments trying to connect up to 512 devices we switched to
> vmalloc because the static nature of sd.c's allocation exceeds 128k which
> I assumed was the max for kmalloc YMMV.

vmalloc is fine, but for large sets of disks sd should be disk object
pointers instead, and a 32bit dev_t migration will be needed anyway
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