linux-kernel - Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

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Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:06:25 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Cc:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

>>>>> "Karel" == Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com> writes:

[Cleaned up the CC: list from hell]

Karel>  # cat /sys/block/md8/queue/{minimum,optimal}_io_size
Karel>  65536 65536

This one had me puzzled.  We set min_io and opt_io correctly in raid5.c
depending on number of non-parity disks.  And yet it turns into
something nonsensical after.

Turns out we overrun unsigned int calculating the lowest common multiple
in the stacking function.  That's why we ended up with the wrong value.

I never noticed this because my userland topology regression test tool
uses unsigned long.

I'll get a patch off to Jens right away.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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