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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] megaraid_sas: set virt_boundary_mask in the scsi
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 09:07:27PM +0530, Kashyap Desai wrote:
> Hi Christoph, Changes for <megaraid_sas> and <mpt3sas> looks good. We want
> to confirm few sanity before ACK. BTW, what benefit we will see moving
> virt_boundry setting to SCSI mid layer ? Is it just modular approach OR any
> functional fix ?

The big difference is that virt_boundary now also changes the
max_segment_size, and this ensures that this limit is also communicated
to the DMA mapping layer.