Re: [RFC] scsi: allow to increase the maximum number of sg entries

2007-04-18 Thread Johann Lombardi
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:32:03AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > I don't think so: simply increasing the phys segments has no effect on a > fully fragmented sg list if the hw segments doesn't go up to match it. Yes, of course. It is then up to each scsi lld to increase max_hw_segments accordingl

Re: [RFC] scsi: allow to increase the maximum number of sg entries

2007-04-18 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:21 +0200, Johann Lombardi wrote: > We have observed noticeable performance improvement by using large single > command data transfers (up to 4MB) with some storage subsystems such as DDN's. > The patch below adds a new config option (CONFIG_SCSI_LARGE_SG) which allows > to