Re: SGI changes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:11:11 +0000 (GMT)


> Does anyone know if these changes are in the kernel? Basically SGI has
> supposedly improved linux to do multidisk array IO access o0r something that
> improves disk IO on multiprocessor systems. I am not sure how thou. IF
> this is a kernel change does anyone know if it will make its way into the
> kernel tree?
>
> http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/pr/?story=/news/stories/pr/
> 19991209/sfth022.htm&symbol=SGI

I've not looked through all of the SGI patches, but several of them won't be
going in at least for a while. The raw I/O directly into the scsi mid layer
for example is not good maintainable layering.

I expect like a lot of code to see it evolve and clean up then in some future
form to maybe become a kernel candidate.

Alan

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