Re: [PATCH] fcoe: Reduce max_sectors to 1024

Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09T06:18:39Z

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 08:16:21AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> The DDP offload on ixgbe is only capable of handling requests up
> to 1024 sectors. So we should be exposing this to avoid spurious
> messages about 'not enough user buffers'.

Shouldn't the network driver be able to communicate it's offload
capabilities to the fcoe core? I'd be happy to take this as an iterim
fix if there's a comment explaining it, but long-term it should be
driver specific.