On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 09:43:36PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This change enables to test read/write commands with huge transfer
> length such as 1GB.  For example:
> 
>       # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1024 clustering=1 opts=1
>       # cat /sys/block/$DEV/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb > \
>               /sys/block/$DEV/queue/max_sectors_kb
>       # fio --name=test --rw=write --bs=1g --size=1g --filename=/dev/$DEV \
>               --mem=mmaphuge  --direct=1
> 
> The data type of max_sectors in scsi_host_template has been extended
> to unsigned int by the previous change.  So we can increase it from
> 0xffff to 0xffffffff to allow such huge transfer length.
> 
> Also, this increases sg_tablesize and max_segment_size, otherwise the
> maximum transfer length is limited to 64MB.
> (sg_tablesize * max_segment_size = 256 * 256KB)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.m...@gmail.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
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