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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fcoe: Reduce max_sectors to 1024
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 23:36:30 -0700
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Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, fcoe-devel@open-fcoe.org

Hannes, can you respin the patch with a comment explaining the limit?

> Does it limit IO size for pass through IO not through block layer ? 

The max_sectors limit also limits the size of passthrough requests.