On Wed, Nov 19 2003, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > Alternatively, we could add this as yet another parameter to the host
> > > and template structures.  Any preferences?
> > 
> > I suppose you have to, if you want LLD to be able to pass it down.
> 
> Well, what I was fishing for: Is this property useful enough to want
> every device driver writer to think about it (i.e. document and place in
> the template),  or is it rare enough that it should only be accessible
> to those who know what they're doing (via the direct block queue
> interfaces in slave_alloc/configure)?

As far as I'm concerned, requiring 512-byte alignment is 'just
easier'... Only a select few host adapters will set it differently
anyways, so you gain basically nothing.

-- 
Jens Axboe



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