On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > In fact, setting max_sectors down to 64 is probably overkill -- 120 > > ought to be enough. But there may have been one or two oddball devices > > that really did have a 32-KB limit, and better safe than sorry. At one > > point an engineer from Genesys said their devices did, although they do > > seem to work perfectly well with 64-KB transfers (and that's what > > Windows gives them). > > It's worth pointing out that performance drops like a stone as this number > goes down.
Does anybody have good performance figures, using a high-quality device? This is the sort of thing where it helps to have some real numbers. Alan Stern - 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/
