Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932677AbVIMPcg (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:32:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932678AbVIMPcg (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:32:36 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:56732 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932677AbVIMPcf (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:32:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:00:10 +1000 From: Anton Blanchard To: Santiago Leon Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Linda Xie Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Message-ID: <20050913150009.GG26162@krispykreme> References: <20050906212801.GB14057@cs.umn.edu> <20050907025932.GU6945@krispykreme> <431EFFE7.6070709@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <431EFFE7.6070709@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 20 Hi, > We use MAX_SECTORS (which is actually 127.5kB) because that's the > max_sectors of the loopback device (we have a lot of users that like the > flexibility of using loopback with the ibmvscsis driver)... It can be > bumped up without any problems because there is code that splits > requests if they are larger than the target's max_sectors... > > What would you recommend? 256kB? ~256kB sounds reasonable to me and I notice that other VIO server is setting it to 256kB :) Anton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/