Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> I do feel larger blocksizes continue to make sense in general though. Packet
> writing on CD/DVD is a problem already today since the hardware needs 32K or
> 64K blocks and I'd expect to see more of these and similiar situations when
> flash gets (even) more popular which it sort of inevitably is going to be.

.. that's what scatter-gather exists for.

What's so hard with just realizing that physical memory isn't contiguous?

It's why we have MMU's. It's why we have scatter-gather. 

		Linus
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