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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hpsa: limit transfer length to 1MB
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:35:54 -0400
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Don,

> The hpsa firmware will bypass the cache for any request larger than
> 1MB, so we should cap the request size to avoid any performance
> degradation in kernels later than v4.3

I assume you guys are OK with this change?

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering