Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: block: set max_segment_size and max_sectors to infinite.

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* Rusty Russell (rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Setting max_segment_size allows more than 64k per sg element, unless
> the host specified a limit.  Setting max_sectors indicates that our
> max_hw_segments is the only limit.

We had been using a simple hardocded constant to increase max sectors to
improve throughput.  This (along with 2/2) are tested and showing nice numbers.

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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