Maximum NVMe IO command size > 1MB?
Xuehua Chen
xuehua at marvell.com
Wed Jan 6 11:23:53 PST 2016
Hi,
It seems to me kernel 4.3 supports NVMe IO command size > 512k after the following is added.
blk_queue_max_segments(ns->queue,
((dev->max_hw_sectors << 9) / dev->page_size) + 1);
If I run the fllowing,
fio --name=iotest --filename=/dev/nvme0n1 --iodepth=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --size=1M --bs=1M --rw=read
I can see one read with data transfer size 1MB is sent to device.
But if I increase the bs to 2M as below, I still see two 1MB commands are sent out instead of one 2MB read command
fio --name=iotest --filename=/dev/nvme0n1 --iodepth=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --size=2M --bs=2M --rw=read
Is there any other settings in kernel that make it split a 2M command into two 1M commands?
Thanks,
Xuehua
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