On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 08:35:29AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > > But more importantly why does your use case even have splits that get > > submitted together? Is this a case of Linus' stupidly low default > > max_sectors when the hardware supports more, or is the hardware limited > > to a low number of sectors per request? Or do we hit another reason > > for the split? > > See the posted use case, it's running 512kb ios on a 128kb device. That is an awfully low limit these days. I'm really not sure we should optimize the block layer for that.