On 10 August 2016 at 11:26, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmmm.. why not? The hardware limit is 64k and the driver is using a Is that referring to the maximum number of entries allowed in the PRDT, Physical Region Descriptor Table (which is, more precisely, 65535)? > lower limit of 168 most likely because it doesn't make noticeable > difference beyond certain point and it determines the size of > contiguous memory which has to be allocated for the command table. > Each sg entry is 16 bytes. Pushing it to the hardware limit would > require an order 9 allocation for each port. That makes sense to me, and I didn't have the intention to push it to the limit anyway. > Not necessarily. A single sg entry can point to an area larger than > PAGE_SIZE. You mean the 4MB limit of "Data Byte Count" in "DW3: Description Information" of the PRDT? Is that what max_segment_size (which is set to a general fallback of 65536: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=dma_get_max_seg_size) is about in this case? And my point was, it will be a multiple of 168 anyway, if 1344 is just an example. > As written above, that probably makes the ahci command table size > nicely aligned. I think that's what bothers me ultimately, cause I don't see how 168 makes it (more) nicely aligned (or even, aligned to what?). I even checked out the AHCI driver of FreeBSD (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/ahci/ahci.h): ... #define MAXPHYS 512 * 1024 ... #define AHCI_SG_ENTRIES (roundup(btoc(MAXPHYS) + 1, 8)) ... #define AHCI_CT_SIZE (128 + AHCI_SG_ENTRIES * 16) ... Couldn't get the sense out of the `+ 1` and round up to 8 thing either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
