Subject: Re: New device buffer queue strategy
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-perform
Date: 09/04/2002 12:56:14
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:40:42PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > I think the right fix for this is to make MAXPHYS variable per driver.
 > As I said, SCSI drivers could then use a larger MAXPHYS and this could
 > help a lot with modern hardware.

In order to do this, you need a way to inherit from the parent bus.  I.e.
there might be some bridge in the middle that clamps transfers at 32K, or
something like that...

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