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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] iscsi iser: increase max_sectors
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 13:43:39 -0700
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 > This could be problematic because, AFAIK, some HCAs (memfree, I think)
 > don't support FMRs of more than 2MB. Roland, am I right?

Mem-free HCAs don't support FMRs where the list of pages is bigger than
a page itself.  So yes, with 4 KB pages, you get 512 * 4 KB that way.

Of course the current iSER driver has much bigger FMR problems, since
some adapters don't support FMRs at all...

 - R.