On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:30:26PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > The NBD layer was breaking up request at a limit of 2040 sectors > (just under 1M) to cater to old qemu-nbd. But the server limit > was raised to 32M in commit 2d8214885 to match the kernel, more > than three years ago; and the upstream NBD Protocol is proposing > documentation that without any explicit communication to state > otherwise, a client should be able to safely assume that a 32M > transaction will work. It is time to rely on the larger sizing, > and any downstream distro that cares about maximum > interoperability to older qemu-nbd servers can just tweak the > value of #define NBD_MAX_SECTORS. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> > > --- > v2: new patch > --- > include/block/nbd.h | 1 + > block/nbd-client.c | 4 ---- > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
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