[PATCH 12/20] nbd: limit blk_queue

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Sep 12 2006 - 11:53:14 EST


Limit each request to 1 page, so that the request throttling also limits the
number of in-flight pages.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/nbd.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/nbd.c 2006-09-07 18:43:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/block/nbd.c 2006-09-07 18:44:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -638,6 +638,9 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
put_disk(disk);
goto out;
}
+ blk_queue_max_segment_size(disk->queue, PAGE_SIZE);
+ blk_queue_max_hw_segments(disk->queue, 1);
+ blk_queue_max_phys_segments(disk->queue, 1);
}

if (register_blkdev(NBD_MAJOR, "nbd")) {

--

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