Re: [PATCH] libata: kill sector_buf temporary buffer

2007-08-16 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Aug 16 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Rather than carrying around this buffer all the time, for rare circumstances, it seems that we can easily alloc/free a temp buffer as needed. Saves a big chunk of per-port memory. I forget the justification for what it was in ata_port to begin

Re: [PATCH] libata: kill sector_buf temporary buffer

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:04:51 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than carrying around this buffer all the time, for rare circumstances, it seems that we can easily alloc/free a temp buffer as needed. Saves a big chunk of per-port memory. NAK. The allocation may deadlock,

Re: [PATCH] libata: kill sector_buf temporary buffer

2007-08-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
*Thats* why I left the patch aside and didn't commit it... :) Thanks for the reminder, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html