Hi, A repost of this patchset, which adds support forchaining of sg tables. This enables much larger IO commands, since we don't have to allocate large consecutive pieces of memory to represent the sgtable of a huge command. Right now Linux is limited to somewhere between 128 and 256 segments, depending on the architecture. This translates into at most 512k-1mb request sizes. With this patchset, I've successfully pushed 10MiB commands through the IO stack.
This will potentially increase performance a lot on hardware that requires larger IO commands to perform at their maximum. Also see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117869783524152 To enable large IO commands for device sda, you would do: # cd /sys/block/sda/queue # echo 4096 > max_segments # cat max_hw_sectors_kb > max_sectors_kb cat max_hw_sectors_kb to see what your largest IO size would now be. Changes since last post: - Rebase to current -git. Lots of SCSI drivers have been converted to use the sg accessor helpers, which nicely shrinks this patchset from 70 to 33 patches. Great! -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
