On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > In fact, setting max_sectors down to 64 is probably overkill -- 120
> > ought to be enough. But there may have been one or two oddball devices
> > that really did have a 32-KB limit, and better safe than sorry. At one
> > point an engineer from Genesys said their devices did, although they do
> > seem to work perfectly well with 64-KB transfers (and that's what
> > Windows gives them).
>
> It's worth pointing out that performance drops like a stone as this number
> goes down.
Does anybody have good performance figures, using a high-quality
device? This is the sort of thing where it helps to have some real
numbers.
Alan Stern
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