Re: Maxphys on -current?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> writes:

> 	hello.  I know that this has ben a very long term project, but I'm wondering about the
> status of this effort?  I note that FreeBSD-13 has a Maxphys value of 1048576 bytes.
> Have we found other ways to get more throughput from ATA disks that obviate the need for this
> setting which I'm not aware of?
> If not, is anyone working on this project?  The wiki page says the project is stalled.

I haven't heard that anyone is.

When you run dd with bs=64k and then bs=1m, how different are the
results?  (I believe raw requests happen accordingly, vs MAXPHYS for fs
etc. access.)