Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:17:19 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [patch] max-sectors-2.6.9-rc1-bk14-A0 |
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On Wed, Sep 08 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > this is a re-send of the max-sectors patch against 2.6.9-rc1-bk14. > > the attached patch introduces two new /sys/block values: > > /sys/block/*/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb > /sys/block/*/queue/max_sectors_kb > > max_hw_sectors_kb is the maximum that the driver can handle and is > readonly. max_sectors_kb is the current max_sectors value and can be > tuned by root. PAGE_SIZE granularity is enforced. > > It's all locking-safe and all affected layered drivers have been updated > as well. The patch has been in testing for a couple of weeks already as > part of the voluntary-preempt patches and it works just fine - people > use it to reduce IDE IRQ handling latencies. Please apply.
Wasn't the move of the ide_lock grabbing enough to solve this problem by itself?
-- Jens Axboe
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