Maximum NVMe IO command size > 1MB?

Sagi Grimberg sagig at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Jan 7 03:39:22 PST 2016


> The value is 2048, which seems to be 2MB.

I think 2048 is 1MB...

max_transfer_size = max_sectors_kb * sector_size =
2048K * 512 = 1MB

I don't think it's coming from any other limitation in
the block layer since I'm able to transfer 8M and more in
a single request with iser.



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