[PATCH] Increase the max transfer size when mdts is 0
Sathyavathi M
sathya.m at samsung.com
Thu Sep 10 04:29:04 PDT 2015
From: Sathyavathi M <sathya.m at samsung.com>
This patch address the issue when IO with 128KB from FIO is splitted as two
parts, 124KB and 4KB due to max transfer size(127KB).This degrades the device
performance.
Signed-off-by: Sathyavathi M <sathya.m at samsung.com>
---
drivers/block/nvme-core.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
index b97fc3f..9bf6ea5 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
@@ -2479,6 +2479,8 @@ static int nvme_dev_add(struct nvme_dev *dev)
memcpy(dev->firmware_rev, ctrl->fr, sizeof(ctrl->fr));
if (ctrl->mdts)
dev->max_hw_sectors = 1 << (ctrl->mdts + shift - 9);
+ else
+ dev->max_hw_sectors = UINT_MAX;
if ((pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL) &&
(pdev->device == 0x0953) && ctrl->vs[3]) {
unsigned int max_hw_sectors;
--
1.9.1
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