From: Karthik Sarangan <karthiks@cdac.in>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O -> max_sectors
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:09:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4344AA81.2020304@cdac.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1128507966.2920.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> no it's a property of the hardware and as such the DRIVER has to set it.
> Not all hw can deal with really big sizes, so the driver is supposed to
> set what the hw is capable of.
>
so I need to send some ioctl to the driver to set the transfer size or
find something in the /proc/scsi area, isn't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-06 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-04 13:51 Using DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O Karthik Sarangan
2005-10-04 14:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <43437163.1020201@cdac.in>
2005-10-05 8:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 9:43 ` Using DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O -> max_sectors Karthik Sarangan
2005-10-05 10:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-06 4:39 ` Karthik Sarangan [this message]
2005-10-04 15:34 ` Using DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O linux-os (Dick Johnson)
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