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From: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH [5/15] qla2xxx:  SG tablesize update
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:40:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040316064037.GA618317@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B179AE41C1147041AA1121F44614F0B0598FC6@AVEXCH02.qlogic.org>

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 03:43:18PM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> 
> Since the driver specifies SG_ALL for the sg_tablesize, from testing
> (x86 and ppc64), we've seen at most 128 SG entries attached to a
> command request of 512K bytes (4K page size * 128).  

Andrew, with a slight mod to your driver, and using James's patch
to issue larger requests, I was able to issue 4MB requests to a
device (256 SG entries times 16KB page size) on our Itanium box.

Some H/W RAIDs have a strong preference for really large requests.

Your plan to switch to the midlayer throttling mechanism sounds good.

jeremy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-16 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-15 23:43 PATCH [5/15] qla2xxx: SG tablesize update Andrew Vasquez
2004-03-16  3:37 ` James Bottomley
2004-03-16  6:40 ` Jeremy Higdon [this message]
2004-03-16 11:32 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-16 21:49 ` James Bottomley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-16 22:09 Andrew Vasquez
2004-03-14  8:24 Andrew Vasquez
2004-03-14 14:49 ` James Bottomley
2004-03-14 14:51   ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-14 14:59     ` James Bottomley
2004-03-14 15:15       ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-14 15:18       ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-14 15:31         ` James Bottomley
2004-03-14 15:47           ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-14 15:55             ` James Bottomley
2004-03-14 16:01               ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-14 20:41             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-14 22:27               ` James Bottomley
2004-03-15 16:12                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-14 20:36       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-14 22:31         ` James Bottomley
2004-03-15 16:09           ` Jeff Garzik

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