From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:49:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:49:23 -0400 Received: from fe040.worldonline.dk ([212.54.64.205]:22029 "HELO fe040.worldonline.dk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:49:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:49:35 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Alan Cox Cc: Shailabh Nagar , Reto Baettig , lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Preliminary results of using multiblock raw I/O Message-ID: <20011023194935.A12005@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20011023084238.C638@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 23 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > request the lower level driver can handle. This is typically 127kB, for > > SCSI it can be as much as 512kB currently and depending on the SCSI > > We really btw should make scsi default to 128K - otherwise all the raid > stuff tends to go 127K, 1K, 127K, 1K and have to handle partial stripe > read/writes Fine with me, the major reason for doing 255 sectors and not 256 was IDE of course... So feel free to change the default host max_sectors to 256. -- Jens Axboe