Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 10:32:57 EST



Hi,

> We use MAX_SECTORS (which is actually 127.5kB) because that's the
> max_sectors of the loopback device (we have a lot of users that like the
> flexibility of using loopback with the ibmvscsis driver)... It can be
> bumped up without any problems because there is code that splits
> requests if they are larger than the target's max_sectors...
>
> What would you recommend? 256kB?

~256kB sounds reasonable to me and I notice that other VIO server is
setting it to 256kB :)

Anton
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