Subject: Re: Spectacular Train Wreck: WD DMA bad on tweaked Alpha...
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/29/2001 10:34:19 
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:31:58AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:

 > I think you need to do your own breakup in IDE.

Why do that when you could just have the upper layers hand down
optimally-sized chunks for a given I/O device?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>