From: Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/8] scsi-ml: scsi_sgtable implementation
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:09:44 -0500
> Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Should fit within a single page.
> > + */
> > +enum { SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS =
> > + ((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct scsi_sgtable)) /
> > + sizeof(struct scatterlist)) };
> > +
> > +enum { SG_MEMPOOL_NR =
> > + (SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS >= 7) +
> > + (SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS >= 15) +
> > + (SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS >= 31) +
> > + (SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS >= 63) +
> > + (SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS >= 127) +
> > + (SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS >= 255) +
> > + (SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS >= 511)
> > +};
> >
>
> What does SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS end up being on x86 now? On x86_64 or
> some other arch, we were going over a page when doing
> SCSI_MAX_PHYS_SEGMENTS of 256 right?
Seems that 170 with x86 and 127 with x86_64.
> What happened to Jens's scatter list chaining and how does this relate
> to it then?
With Jens' sglist, we can set SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS to whatever we
want. We can remove the above code.
We need to push this and Jens' sglist together in one merge window, I
think.
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