Re: [PATCH v2] block: Increase BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP

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On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:00:45 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Back in 2015, commit d2be537c3ba3 ("block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to
> 2560") increased the default maximum size of a block device I/O to 2560
> sectors (1280 KiB) to "accommodate a 10-data-disk stripe write with
> chunk size 128k". This choice is rather arbitrary and since then,
> improvements to the block layer have software RAID drivers correctly
> advertize their stripe width through chunk_sectors and abuses of
> BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP by drivers (to set the HW limit rather than the
> default user controlled maximum I/O size) have been fixed.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] block: Increase BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP
      commit: 345c5091ffec5d4d53d7fe572fef3bcc3805824b

Best regards,
-- 
Jens Axboe







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