Re: 2.5.6: ide driver broken in PIO mode

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:37:33 +0000 (GMT)

> b) The block layer needs to be extended so the driver can walk
> all the request's segments prior to signalling completion
> against any of them.

This would be good - batching blocks by peeking down the queue is good
for raid cards which tend to want stripe sized chunks
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