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Subject: Re: AIC7xxx panic
To: dmgrime@appliedtheory.com (David M. Grimes)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:47:15 +0100 (BST)
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> Were there recent changes in ll_rw_blk which are being addressed by
> "Elevator flow control"?  As suggested earlier in this thread, the cause
> might be a few layers up, and this seemed relevant.

Unrelated I suspect. All it means is that in some cases -ac will have less
segments queued before blocking. The max sectors per I/O and max segments
per I/o are controlled by the drivers
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