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- From: mbs@fungus.zso.dec.com (Michael Schmitz)
- Subject: Adaptec SCSI bug?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.210037.9265@ninja.zso.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:00:37 GMT
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- In trying to figure out why my 386BSD 0.1 sometimes hangs during
- heavy disk I/O, I noticed the following in the adaptec driver:
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- In i386/isa/as.c NSCATTER is set to 17, but the adaptec documentation
- gives the maximum size for a scatter/gather array as 16. Scatter/gather
- is always used, so that the data area pointed to by b_addr (in a struct
- buf) may be backed by physically contiguous pages or not.
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- Question: Can the physical pages backing a struct buf ever be not
- physically contiguous? If contiguous, then scatter/gather is not
- needed at all.
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- Question: Are struct bufs (data area) limited to 8K? In this case
- (allowing for rounding) the loop that collects the scatter/gather
- info would only execute at most three times anyway.
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- By the way, I'm using 32 Megs for swap, so it can be a swap resource
- problem.
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- --Michael--
- mbs@zso.dec.com
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