Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753453Ab2JRBvf (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:51:35 -0400 Received: from noserose.net ([66.220.18.76]:51727 "HELO noserose.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753364Ab2JRBve (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:51:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:51:31 -0700 Message-Id: <99ed04bff467f3b3752bc9b2480db07f12a2b2f5.1350524227.git.ecashin@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: References: From: Ed Cashin Subject: [PATCH 5/9] aoe: support larger I/O requests via aoe_maxsectors module param To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: ecashin@coraid.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1654 Lines: 50 The GPFS filesystem is an example of an aoe user that requires the aoe driver to support I/O request sizes larger than the default. Most users will not need large I/O request sizes, because they would need to be split up into multiple AoE commands anyway. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin --- drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c index 00dfc50..d5aa3b8 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c @@ -16,11 +16,18 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "aoe.h" static DEFINE_MUTEX(aoeblk_mutex); static struct kmem_cache *buf_pool_cache; +/* GPFS needs a larger value than the default. */ +static int aoe_maxsectors; +module_param(aoe_maxsectors, int, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(aoe_maxsectors, + "When nonzero, set the maximum number of sectors per I/O request"); + static ssize_t aoedisk_show_state(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *page) { @@ -248,6 +255,8 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp) d->blkq = gd->queue = q; q->queuedata = d; d->gd = gd; + if (aoe_maxsectors) + blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(q, aoe_maxsectors); gd->major = AOE_MAJOR; gd->first_minor = d->sysminor; gd->fops = &aoe_bdops; -- 1.7.1 -- 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/