On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:31:25PM +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:

 >   (b) no MAXPHYS at all and let the low level driver deal with
 >       segmenting large requests if necessary

This is clearly what we prefer.

 >   Remind me again why MAXPHYS is needed at all, is it just for histerical
 > reasons and no one ever bothered to remove that limitation?

Yes, but those reasons are now well-entrenched.  E.g. we still map pages
into KVA in order to do I/O, even if that is not actually necessary.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>