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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-27 11:46:49 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-27 11:46:49 -0500
commit4fa639123d9e6e8dfaa3d116368f4b2478da31af (patch)
tree50c42e2102a542891a15b5011e48fbde14149baf /Documentation
parentdf5b89b323b922f56650b4b4d7c41899b937cf19 (diff)
parentae36b883d29e53b6083ed3d1d44f254cee7507d3 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] Don't make debugfs depend on DEBUG_KERNEL [PATCH] Fix blktrace compile with sysfs not defined [PATCH] unused label in drivers/block/cciss. [BLOCK] increase size of disk stat counters [PATCH] blk_execute_rq_nowait-speedup [PATCH] ide-cd: quiet down GPCMD_READ_CDVD_CAPACITY failure [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: kmalloc -> kzalloc conversion [PATCH] kzalloc() conversion in drivers/block [PATCH] update max_sectors documentation
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@@ -132,8 +132,18 @@ Some new queue property settings:
132 limit. No highmem default. 132 limit. No highmem default.
133 133
134 blk_queue_max_sectors(q, max_sectors) 134 blk_queue_max_sectors(q, max_sectors)
135 Maximum size request you can handle in units of 512 byte 135 Sets two variables that limit the size of the request.
136 sectors. 255 default. 136
137 - The request queue's max_sectors, which is a soft size in
138 in units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied
139 by the core kernel.
140
141 - The request queue's max_hw_sectors, which is a hard limit
142 and reflects the maximum size request a driver can handle
143 in units of 512 byte sectors.
144
145 The default for both max_sectors and max_hw_sectors is
146 255. The upper limit of max_sectors is 1024.
137 147
138 blk_queue_max_phys_segments(q, max_segments) 148 blk_queue_max_phys_segments(q, max_segments)
139 Maximum physical segments you can handle in a request. 128 149 Maximum physical segments you can handle in a request. 128