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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] SGIIOC4 limit request size
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:39:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060201133917.GA27011@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060201113607.GF152005@sgi.com>

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:36:07AM -0800, Jeremy Higdon wrote:
> Here's one that removes xcount.  It seems to work too.
> Should we set hwif->rqsize to 256, or are we pretty safe in
> expecting that the default won't rise?  The driver should be

255 is the safest for LBA28 devices because a small number incorrectly
interpret 0 (meaning 256) as 0. And that can have unfortunate results

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-01 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-01  8:59 [patch] SGIIOC4 limit request size Jes Sorensen
2006-02-01 10:34 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-01 10:41   ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-01 10:49   ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-02-01 11:08     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-01 11:17       ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-02-01 11:26         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-01 11:36           ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-02-01 12:44             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-02  8:00               ` [patch] Fix DMA timeouts with sgiioc4 Jeremy Higdon
2006-02-02  8:45                 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-01 13:39             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-02-01 14:53               ` [patch] SGIIOC4 limit request size Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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