Subject: Re: Single file system (buf) read size
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l_Halvorsen?= <paalh@unik.no>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/13/2001 14:19:01
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:24:52AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:19:38PM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > > there's the MAXPHYS constant that you should bump up to the maximum i/o size
> > > you want to use.  I wouldn't be surprised if you ran into trouble though,
> > > since I imagine hardly anyone tests drivers with an increased MAXPHYS.
> > 
> > It's worse.
> > 
> > The amiga/dev/asiop driver (and its descendants) have a static area of
> > dma regions allocated in the address space written by the driver and
> > read by the downloaded script code... it's scaled as MAXPHYS / MMUpagesize.
> 
> Uh, not MAXPHYS, but 65536, of course.
> 
> Regards,
> 	-is

What about the SCSI driver (/sys/dev/scsipi/sd.c ??), will this be able to
handle requests larger than 64 KB (I'm using a SCSI disk - Adaptec 7899
Ultra 160)?

-ph