From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751450AbdFZRgP (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:36:15 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:46722 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751101AbdFZRgH (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:36:07 -0400 To: don.brace@microsemi.com Cc: Yadan Fan , martin.petersen@oracle.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, esc.storagedev@microsemi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hpsa: limit transfer length to 1MB From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20170623094006.16807-1-ydfan@suse.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:35:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170623094006.16807-1-ydfan@suse.com> (Yadan Fan's message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:40:05 +0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Don, > The hpsa firmware will bypass the cache for any request larger than > 1MB, so we should cap the request size to avoid any performance > degradation in kernels later than v4.3 I assume you guys are OK with this change? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering