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* max_sectors
@ 2001-12-02 14:07 Lord Latex
  2001-12-04  8:46 ` max_sectors Jens Axboe
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lord Latex @ 2001-12-02 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

is there a limit other then max_sectors that limimits the
maximum size of a request for a block device? in my block
device driver i allow requests up to 512KB. but when
i do i/o from a user process don't profit from i/o's 
greater then 64KB.

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* Re: max_sectors
  2001-12-02 14:07 max_sectors Lord Latex
@ 2001-12-04  8:46 ` Jens Axboe
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jens Axboe @ 2001-12-04  8:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lord Latex; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Sun, Dec 02 2001, Lord Latex wrote:
> is there a limit other then max_sectors that limimits the
> maximum size of a request for a block device? in my block

Not the absolute size, no.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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