From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI sym53c8xx_2: bigger transfer limits
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:41:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060228204122.GL27759@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602282104040.6272@kai.makisara.local>
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:14:31PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote:
> This patch enables clustering and sets max_sectors to 0xffff to enable
> reading and writing of large blocks with tapes (and large transfers with
> sg). This change is needed after the sg and st drivers started using
> chained bios through scsi_request_async() in 2.6.16.
Seems entirely reasonable to me. Did you want this in 2.6.16, or is
2.6.17 soon enough?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-28 19:14 [PATCH] SCSI sym53c8xx_2: bigger transfer limits Kai Makisara
2006-02-28 20:41 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-03-01 15:29 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-01 15:39 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-01 15:54 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-01 16:00 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-03-01 16:11 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-01 16:17 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-01 20:34 ` Kai Makisara
2006-03-01 20:43 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-01 22:24 ` Kai Makisara
2006-03-02 3:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-02 7:29 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-04 8:16 ` Kai Makisara
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