Re: [PATCH 00/33] SG table chaining support

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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