Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] breaking the 512 KiB IO boundary on x86_64

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 04:41:11AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> We've been constrained to a max single 512 KiB IO for a while now on x86_64.

No, we absolutely haven't.  I'm regularly seeing multi-MB I/O on both
SCSI and NVMe setup.

> This is due to the number of DMA segments and the segment size.

In nvme the max_segment_size is UINT_MAX, and for most SCSI HBAs it is
fairly large as well.





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