> From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Also, I think it's wrong for filesystems and userspace to use it for > alignment. In E.4 and E.5 in the "sbc3r25.pdf" doc, it looks like they > use the optimal granularity field for alignment, not the optimal > transfer length. Everything you say suggests that "optimal transfer length" means "there is a penalty for doing transfers *larger* than this", but people have been treating it as "there is a penalty for doing transfers *smaller* than this". But the latter is the "optimal transfer length granularity". Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html