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authorStefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>2011-01-05 06:48:01 -0500
committerMartin Schwidefsky <sky@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>2011-01-05 06:47:29 -0500
commit9062014cb60194630272709da82d5879d563865e (patch)
tree93c48a63701415ced8fac9664299290ef8fca248 /drivers/s390/block
parentf3e1a273594c7d82b07102bd03e8adfe681f2864 (diff)
[S390] cio: reduce memory consumption of itcw structures
Any list of indirect data adresses (TIDAL) used by a TCW must not cross a page boundary. The original itcw implementation complies with this restriction by allocating allmost twice as much memory as actually needed, so that in any case there is enough room for the full TIDAL, either above or below the page boundary. This patch implements an alternative method, by using a TTIC TIDAW to connect TIDAL parts below and above a page boundary. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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