Re: [RFC][PATCH] libata ATAPI alignment

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 09:43:53 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ahci.c b/drivers/scsi/ahci.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/ahci.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ahci.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@

enum {
AHCI_PCI_BAR = 5,
- AHCI_MAX_SG = 168, /* hardware max is 64K */
+ AHCI_MAX_SG = 300, /* hardware max is 64K */
AHCI_DMA_BOUNDARY = 0xffffffff,
AHCI_USE_CLUSTERING = 0,
AHCI_CMD_SLOT_SZ = 32 * 32,


Reasoning? I agree, just wondering... How big is the allocated area now?

168 kept the entire allocated DMA area to 4K.

300 increases that to <I don't care>K. ;-)

Jeff


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