Maximum NVMe IO command size > 1MB?
Xuehua Chen
xuehua at marvell.com
Thu Jan 7 09:34:53 PST 2016
>I think 2048 is 1MB...
Could you double check?
>From https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
max_hw_sectors_kb (RO)
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This is the maximum number of kilobytes supported in a single data transfer.
> 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.
Is this transfer done via a single bio? How did you determine the single transfer size?
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