Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hpsa: limit transfer length to 1MB

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On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 05:40:05PM +0800, Yadan Fan wrote:
> The hpsa firmware will bypass the cache for any request larger
> than 1MB, so we should cap the request size to avoid any
> performance degradation in kernels later than v4.3
> 
> This degradation is caused from d2be537c3ba3568acd79cd178327b842e60d035e,
> which changed max_sectors_kb to 1280k, but the hardware is able to
> work fine with it, so the true fix should be from hpsa driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yadan Fan <ydfan@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
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