Re: libata .sg_tablesize: why always dividing by 2 ?

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On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:43:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> As I said before, it should not be fixed.
> If it's "fixed", we'll run out of iommu space all the time.
> We should stop having stupid requirements instead.

Hints would be extremely good. Teaching the I/O layers to do

	if (blk_queue_align_64k(queue) == -EGOSTICKYOURHEADINABUCKET)
		size /= 2;

is not very hard - or even an arch helper for

	n = blk_queue_worst_case(65536, 256);

Alan

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