From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: sai narasimhamurthy <sai_narasi@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:12:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113833561.4998.10.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050418061723.49716.qmail@web54105.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:17 -0700, sai narasimhamurthy wrote:
> I tried working on scsi_malloc to increase burst size
> , but to no avail ..all I got was hanged system every
> time I started data transfers!
> Has anyone worked on scsi_malloc , I am still trying
> to figure out what changes were made in 2.6 to
> overcome this problem of limited bursts.
The change in 2.6 was to dump scsi_malloc and use mempools instead for
the sg list.
> Any pointers are very greatly welcome...I have never
> worked on this part of the code before .
Upgrade to 2.6 ... seriously ... what you're trying to do is what 2.6
was designed for.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-18 6:17 increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads sai narasimhamurthy
2005-04-18 14:12 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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2005-04-10 2:35 sai narasimhamurthy
2005-04-11 1:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
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