speeding up ugen by an order of magnitude.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040707091311.GE12877 at cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:
>On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:32:28PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

>What about those options:
>- limit the allocated memory to the user request so we don't take the
>  whole 128k if not reuired.
>- Do interleaving with 2 or more xfers if the read request is known to
>  take more xfers.

I would consider ugen to be a primary candidate to use physio like
I belive scsi-tape drives do ?

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