On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:17:00PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > Pat LaVarre wrote: > >Agreed, shattering a read/ write stream into miniscule pieces improves > >interop at small cost to typical usage of much storage. > > It improves interop, yes ... but that cost would only be small > for full speed devices. It's called "de-tuning", or "pessimizing" > (contrast "optimizing"). > > For devices that work properly -- like the high speed ISD bridges, > Western Digital drives I've tried, and many others -- it's better > not to force use of mini-transactions. Make whitelisted hardware > run at its natural speed by default: no fragment limits, use the > system's low level flow control mechanisms as they're intended.
Given the pain we've had with maintaining the unusual_devs.h device list,
I'm very reluctant to start another list (even if it is a 'whitelist').
Matt
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