From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 12207] block reads/writes > 122880 bytes to USB tape drive gives EBUSY
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:47:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4950FA03.9080106@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081223135938.30266108042@picon.linux-foundation.org>
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12207
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> ------- Comment #6 from stern@rowland.harvard.edu 2008-12-23 05:59 -------
> You can change the max_sectors setting through sysfs. However the last time I
> looked, the block layer limited max_sectors to 512 KB or something on that
> order, so you can't get too much improvement.
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> Why is a limit of 120 KB unreasonably small? All it means is that you have to
> use more system calls to transfer the same amount of data. Is anything wrong
> with that?
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This is not true BIOs can be chained and also SGs can be chained.
You should be able to configure a very large transfer
Boaz
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2008-12-12 21:41 [Bug 12207] New: block reads/writes > 122880 bytes to USB tape drive gives EBUSY bugme-daemon
2008-12-22 17:44 ` [Bug 12207] " bugme-daemon
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