Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/iser: set max_segment_size

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:13:52AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> >That's what NVMe does, but I don't think it's a good idea.  Because
> >of the unaligned start into the page this means you have to set the limit
> >to one lower than the actual hardware limit.
> 
> I think this means that there is a mismatch between the current block layer
> limits and what NVMe / RDMA drivers need ...

If we tell the block layer that we can only handle page sized comments
using max_segent_size it should do the right thing.

Now one thing that might be useful is to force the max_segent_size
when setting the virt boundary, as they seem to be closely related.
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