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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/33] SG table chaining support
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>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:

John> Will this help out tape drive performance at all? I looked
John> through the patches quickly, esp the AIC7xxx stuff since that's
John> what I use, but nothing jumped out at me...

Yes. Most modern tape drives want a block size of 1MB or higher.
With the old stack we'd be stuck at 512KB because the sg limitations
caused us to come just short of 1MB...

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering

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