Re: Using DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O -> max_sectors

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 15:13 +0530, Karthik Sarangan wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >max_sectors in the host template for scsi
> 
> Can I set this parameter during startup for scsi_mod.ko during load?

no it's a property of the hardware and as such the DRIVER has to set it.
Not all hw can deal with really big sizes, so the driver is supposed to
set what the hw is capable of.

> I actually needed a 256KB transfer size 

needed in what sense? 2x 128Kb isn't too bad either anyway :)


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