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SubjectRe: SII SATA request size limit
> In recent kernels, the siimage driver limits the max kb per request size to 15
> (7.5kb). As I was having no problems with rqsize of 128 (64kb), I decided to
> comment out this part of the code and my system is rock solid.
>
> I'm not suggesting that it should be removed, as it probably is necessary on
> other systems, but as the performance impact is huge (with 15 hdparm tests
> show an average 26mb/s and with 128 it's 47mb/s), I think the user should be
> warnned of this and there could be a option to set it to 128 in 2.6.x
> kernels, so people can try to see if it's stable. I really don't beleive that
> I have such an unique hardware configuration, so this should benefit other
> people.

I'm using 256 or 128, I don't remember exactly with a sii3112. It is rock
solid.

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> Marcelo Penna Guerra
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