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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Frederic TEMPORELLI <frederic.temporelli@ext.bull.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO blocks are limited to 512KBytes (blk_queue_max_sectors)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:57:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060615185746.GG3456@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44917313.9040800@ext.bull.net>

On Thu, Jun 15 2006, Frederic TEMPORELLI wrote:
> So, what is the nice way to change the block layer for getting large IO 
> blocks (> 1024 sectors) ?

# echo large_value > /sys/block/<dev>/queue/max_sectors_kb

where large_value <= max_hw_sectors_kb

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2006-06-15 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-15 14:47 IO blocks are limited to 512KBytes (blk_queue_max_sectors) Frederic TEMPORELLI
2006-06-15 18:57 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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