Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

[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 made in 2.6 to
> overcome this problem of limited bursts. 

The change in 2.6 was to dump scsi_malloc and use mempools instead for
the sg list.

> Any pointers are very greatly welcome...I have never
> worked on this part of the code before .

Upgrade to 2.6 ... seriously ... what you're trying to do is what 2.6
was designed for.

James


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