Re: [PATCH 04/23] scsi: initialize scsi midlayer limits before allocating the queue

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:28:21AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> No that's wrong. The actual hardware page size is 4K, but
>> CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_SHIFT etc. is 64K.
>> 
>> So at least for this user the driver used to work with 64K pages, and
>> now doesn't.
>
> Which suggested that the communicated max_hw_sectors is wrong, and
> previously we were saved by the block layer increasing it to
> PAGE_SIZE after a warning.  Should we just increment it to 64k?

It looks like that user actually only has the CDROM hanging off
pata_macio, so it's possible it has been broken previously and they
didn't notice. I'll see if they can confirm the CDROM has been working
up until now.

I can test the CDROM on my G5 next week.

cheers




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [SCSI Target Devel]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Linux IIO]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux