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To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: Optimal I/O size should be a multiple of physical block size
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Christoph,

> It was reported that some devices report an OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH of
> 0xFFFF blocks. That looks bogus, especially for a device with a
> 4096-byte physical block size.
>
> Ignore OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH if it is not a multiple of the device's
> reported physical block size.

Did you get a chance to test the updated patch?

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering