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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Tom Yan <tom.ty89@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
	util-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: optimal io size / custom alignment
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:01:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1a8vwenog.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGnHSEnMgivXU_0gDaOkHFkbc=Ve8PaPR0ho8+VhdcUuNu89Gw@mail.gmail.com> (Tom Yan's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:49:51 +0800")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yan <tom.ty89@gmail.com> writes:

Tom> No I put it in the wrong way. What I meant was "sd vs md". For
Tom> example, couldn't the scsi disk driver bind the value it reads from
Tom> the VPD to another variable instead of "optimal i/o size", so that
Tom> this value would be exclusively for RAID (and other virtual
Tom> devices)?

Who says that RAID is a virtual device? Hardware RAID controllers as
well as SAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel disk arrays all use the Block
Limits VPD to communicate their preferred I/O size and alignment to
us. As do enterprise disk drives.

We deal with broken devices by blacklisting them. I suggest you try to
find a way we can reliably identify your UAS devices. If there is a
common pattern, we can entertain adding a workaround.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-18 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-13 14:52 optimal io size / custom alignment Tom Yan
2015-06-15 13:31 ` Karel Zak
2015-06-16  5:20   ` Tom Yan
2015-06-16  5:37     ` Tom Yan
2015-06-16  9:43     ` Karel Zak
2015-06-16 10:22       ` Tom Yan
2015-06-16 17:08     ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-16 19:26       ` Tom Yan
2015-06-16 21:28         ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-17  9:49           ` Tom Yan
2015-06-18 21:01             ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2015-06-20 16:01               ` Tom Yan
2015-06-21  0:12                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-22 14:32                 ` Alan Stern
2015-07-12  4:19   ` optimal io size / custom alignment -- caution on custom aligns Linda Walsh

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