3 May
2011
3 May
'11
3:51 p.m.
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:32:47PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Hrm, then I don't understand why changing the cache management changes the bulk I/O behavior as you described. What's missing there?
If we can't get the data laid out in a contiguous array in memory then we have to gather the data for transmit in the I/O code which is painful and wasteful. As I say for other cache formats this isn't an issue.