Unmapped buffers: to be merged in several days
Lev Serebryakov
lev at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 13 11:02:33 UTC 2013
Hello, Konstantin.
You wrote 12 марта 2013 г., 1:11:58:
>> Will GEOM class, which needs to touch data (like raid3 or my off-tree
>> raid5), benefit from conversion, compare to generic mechanism,
>> provided for not-converted by your patch?
KB> First, what do you mean by 'benefit'. Answer would obviously depend
KB> on the criteria.
One more thought: it seems, that raid3/raid5 software implementations
could benefit on reading when strict checks are disabled. Is it
possible to map downstream BIOs, but use upstream ones unmapped?
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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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