Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

2005-04-18 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:17 -0700, sai narasimhamurthy wrote: > I tried working on scsi_malloc to increase burst size > , but to no avail ..all I got was hanged system every > time I started data transfers! > Has anyone worked on scsi_malloc , I am still trying > to figure out what changes were ma

Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

2005-04-17 Thread sai narasimhamurthy
Hi , I tried working on scsi_malloc to increase burst size , but to no avail ..all I got was hanged system every time I started data transfers! Has anyone worked on scsi_malloc , I am still trying to figure out what changes were made in 2.6 to overcome this problem of limited bursts. Any pointe

Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:35:52 -0700 (PDT) sai narasimhamurthy wrote: | Hi, | I had posted a question on increasing the scsi | read/write sectors per command. I figured out some of | the things, but many questions still exist. | | I was wondering why the maximum writes I could get | from a single

increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

2005-04-09 Thread sai narasimhamurthy
Hi, I had posted a question on increasing the scsi read/write sectors per command. I figured out some of the things, but many questions still exist. I was wondering why the maximum writes I could get from a single scsi write command could never exceed 204 4096B segments . I traced it to :