From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Linda Xie <lxiep@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:00:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050913150009.GG26162@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431EFFE7.6070709@us.ibm.com>
Hi,
> We use MAX_SECTORS (which is actually 127.5kB) because that's the
> max_sectors of the loopback device (we have a lot of users that like the
> flexibility of using loopback with the ibmvscsis driver)... It can be
> bumped up without any problems because there is code that splits
> requests if they are larger than the target's max_sectors...
>
> What would you recommend? 256kB?
~256kB sounds reasonable to me and I notice that other VIO server is
setting it to 256kB :)
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-13 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050906212801.GB14057@cs.umn.edu>
2005-09-07 2:59 ` [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Anton Blanchard
2005-09-07 14:57 ` Santiago Leon
2005-09-13 15:00 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2005-09-07 10:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-07 12:45 ` Dave C Boutcher
2005-09-07 12:58 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2005-09-07 17:17 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-07 17:04 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-07 18:47 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2005-09-07 18:56 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-07 20:07 ` [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR/SCST 0.9.3-pre1 published Vladislav Bolkhovitin
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