Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 08:52:06 EST


On Sat, Feb 02 2002, arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:
> In article <20020202135749.B4934@suse.de> you wrote:
> >> include/linux/blk.h
> >>
> >> Changed NR_REQUEST from 256 to 16. This reduces the number of
> >> requests that can be queued. The size of the queue is reduced
> >> from 16K to 1K.
>
> > You can do even more than this -- I dunno what I/O interface these
> > embedded system generally uses (the mtd stuff?)
>
> the MTD stuff wants CONFIG_BLOCKLAYER ;)
> flash + jffs2 doesn't need any blocklayer at all ;)

Right, that was exactly my point...

-- 
Jens Axboe

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