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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Cc: dgilbert@interlog.com,
	Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: sg driver, sg_io and sg tablesize
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 19:41:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170302114139.GA22977@lemon.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50601133.40845997.1488406291147.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>

On Wed, 03/01 17:11, Laurence Oberman wrote:
> This was suggested by Ewan and is the best way to know what the actual max I/O
> size for sg_io would be for the LPFC driver.

This sounds silly, why is there a "lame" max I/O size as in max_sectors_kb,
that is unusable because of a more limiting max_segments, and an "actual max
I/O size" as derived from the latter? What is the reason of the contradiction
here?

Fam

      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-02 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <178924924.40657267.1488382475137.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
2017-03-01 15:44 ` sg driver, sg_io and sg tablesize Laurence Oberman
2017-03-01 22:11   ` Laurence Oberman
2017-03-02 11:41     ` Fam Zheng [this message]

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