"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > You simply cannot do physical disk IO on > non-sector-aligned memory or in chunks which aren't a multiple of > sector size. Why not? Obviously the disk access itself must be sector aligned and the total length must be a multiple of the sector length, but there shouldn't be any restrictions on the data buffers. I remember that even Windoze 95 has scatter-gather support for physical disk IO with arbitraty buffer chunks. (If the hardware supports it, otherwise the io subsystem will copy the data into a contiguous temporary buffer) -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Manfred Spraul
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Manfred Spraul
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie