Re: kiobuf using kernel pages

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:08:32 +0000 (GMT)

> primarily useful for high-performance disk I/O (e.g. for Oracle)
> which is not a strength of IDE/EIDE/UDMA devices, and
> the block device can always be used on IDE devices, it's just
> slower (and may affect the page cache behavior).

The highest performance I/O devices we support right now are not SCSI
interfaced at the Linux<->PCI level. Neither the DPT Millenium in I2O block
mode or the DAC960 are presenting SCSI interfaces.

Alan

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