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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 11:45:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545BB3AB.8070409@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1k338b5d5.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 11/06/2014 11:34 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com> writes:
>
> Chris> Perhaps the ST900MM0026 should be blacklisted as well?
>
> Sure. I'll widen the net a bit for that Seagate model.

That'd work, but is it the best way to go?  I mean, I found one report 
of a similar problem on an SSD (model number unknown).  In that case it 
was a near-UINT_MAX value as well.

The problem with the blacklist is that until someone patches it, the 
drive is broken.  And then it stays blacklisted even if the firmware 
gets fixed.

I'm wondering if it might not be better to just ignore all values larger 
than X (where X is whatever we think is the largest conceivable 
reasonable value).

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-06 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-06 16:47 absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk Chris Friesen
2014-11-06 17:16 ` Chris Friesen
2014-11-06 17:34   ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-06 17:45     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2014-11-06 18:12       ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-06 18:15         ` Jens Axboe
2014-11-06 19:14         ` Chris Friesen
2014-11-07  1:56           ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-07  5:35             ` Chris Friesen
2014-11-07 15:18               ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-07 16:25               ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-07 17:42                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-07 17:51                   ` Chris Friesen
2014-11-07 18:03                     ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-07 18:48                 ` Chris Friesen
2014-11-07 19:17                   ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-07 21:04                     ` Chris Friesen
2014-11-07 17:10             ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-11-07 17:40               ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-11-07 20:15               ` Douglas Gilbert

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