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Subject: Re: 2.5.6: ide driver broken in PIO mode
To: akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:37:33 +0000 (GMT)
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> 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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