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Message-ID: <1371812216-17093-5-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:56:56 +0200
From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@...rix.com>
To: <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] xen-blkfront: increase the default number of indirect segments
When using certain storage devices (like RAID) having a bigger number
of segments per request provides better performance.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
Reported-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@....id.au>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 2e1ee34..4e3ab34 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ static const struct block_device_operations xlvbd_block_fops;
* by the backend driver.
*/
-static unsigned int xen_blkif_max_segments = 32;
+static unsigned int xen_blkif_max_segments = 64;
module_param_named(max, xen_blkif_max_segments, int, S_IRUGO);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(max, "Maximum amount of segments in indirect requests (default is 32)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max, "Maximum amount of segments in indirect requests (default is 64)");
#define BLK_RING_SIZE __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif, PAGE_SIZE)
--
1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26)
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