On 0605T1849, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > On 0604T0952, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On 06/04/17 09:39, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > One possibility would be to make it MD build-time OTIONS, > > > defaulting 1M on regular systems and 128k on smaller systems. > > > > > > Of course I guess making it a tunable (or sysctl) would be best, > > > though. > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > A tunable sysctl would be fine, but beware that commonly used firmware > > out there produced in the millions might hang in a non-recoverable way > > if you exceed their "internal limits". Conditionally lowering this > > definition is fine, but increasing it needs to be carefully verified. > > > > For example many USB devices are only tested with OS'es like Windows and > > MacOS and if these have any kind of limitation on the SCSI transfer > > sizes, it is very likely many devices out there do not support any > > larger transfer sizes either. > > FWIW, when testing cfiscsi(4) with Windows and OSX I've noticed > that both issue 1MB requests. I wouldn't be surprised if they avoided > doing that for older devices, depending on eg the SCSI version reported > by device. Erm, this was obviously - or perhaps not - say: when testing cfumass(4). As in, Windows and OSX both seem to issue 1MB requests to USB Mass Storage devices.Received on Thu Jun 08 2017 - 19:18:41 UTC
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