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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2014-09-06 16:08:05 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2014-10-21 14:02:54 -0600
commit34b48db66e08ca1c1bc07cf305d672ac940268dc (patch)
tree06fc3e6639a492eb14c326bd8697c1ba9907c9da
parentc2661b806092d8ea2dccb7b02b65776555e0ee47 (diff)
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block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap
Set max_sectors to the value the drivers provides as hardware limit by default. Linux had proper I/O throttling for a long time and doesn't rely on a artifically small maximum I/O size anymore. By not limiting the I/O size by default we remove an annoying tuning step required for most Linux installation. Note that both the user, and if absolutely required the driver can still impose a limit for FS requests below max_hw_sectors_kb. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
-rw-r--r--block/blk-settings.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h1
3 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index aa02247d227e..6ed2cbe5e8c9 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -257,9 +257,7 @@ void blk_limits_max_hw_sectors(struct queue_limits *limits, unsigned int max_hw_
__func__, max_hw_sectors);
}
- limits->max_hw_sectors = max_hw_sectors;
- limits->max_sectors = min_t(unsigned int, max_hw_sectors,
- BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS);
+ limits->max_sectors = limits->max_hw_sectors = max_hw_sectors;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_limits_max_hw_sectors);
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
index dd73e1ff1759..46c282fff104 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp)
WARN_ON(d->flags & DEVFL_TKILL);
WARN_ON(d->gd);
WARN_ON(d->flags & DEVFL_UP);
- blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(q, BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS);
+ blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(q, 1024);
q->backing_dev_info.name = "aoe";
q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = READ_AHEAD / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
d->bufpool = mp;
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 0207a78a8d82..74d14dba6fb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1186,7 +1186,6 @@ extern int blk_verify_command(unsigned char *cmd, fmode_t has_write_perm);
enum blk_default_limits {
BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS = 128,
BLK_SAFE_MAX_SECTORS = 255,
- BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS = 1024,
BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE = 65536,
BLK_SEG_BOUNDARY_MASK = 0xFFFFFFFFUL,
};