linux/drivers
Jeff Moyer 30e2bc08b2 Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
This reverts commit 34b48db66e.
That commit caused performance regressions for streaming I/O
workloads on a number of different storage devices, from
SATA disks to external RAID arrays.  It also managed to
trip up some buggy firmware in at least one drive, causing
data corruption.

The next patch will bump the default max_sectors_kb value to
1280, which will accommodate a 10-data-disk stripe write
with chunk size 128k.  In the testing I've done using iozone,
fio, and aio-stress, a value of 1280 does not show a big
performance difference from 512.  This will hopefully still
help the software RAID setup that Christoph saw the original
performance gains with while still not regressing other
storage configurations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 13:21:13 -07:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branches 'pm-cpuidle', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'acpi-resources' 2015-07-16 23:47:19 +02:00
amba
android
ata ata: ahci_platform: Add ACPI _CLS matching 2015-07-07 01:55:21 +02:00
atm
auxdisplay
base Fix firmware loader uevent buffer NULL pointer dereference 2015-07-09 11:20:01 -07:00
bcma
block Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap" 2015-08-18 13:21:13 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: ath3k: Add support of 04ca:300d AR3012 device 2015-06-18 21:00:06 +03:00
bus ARM: SoC: driver updates for v4.2 2015-06-26 11:54:29 -07:00
cdrom
char Merge tag 'tpm-fixes-for-4.2-rc2' of https://github.com/PeterHuewe/linux-tpmdd into for-linus 2015-07-15 21:46:59 +10:00
clk A small set of fixes for problems found by smatch in new drivers 2015-07-11 11:08:21 -07:00
clocksource clocksource/imx: Define clocksource for mx27 2015-07-07 10:44:45 +02:00
connector
cpufreq Merge branches 'pm-cpuidle', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'acpi-resources' 2015-07-16 23:47:19 +02:00
cpuidle suspend-to-idle: Prevent RCU from complaining about tick_freeze() 2015-07-09 22:59:49 +02:00
crypto crypto: nx - Fix reentrancy bugs 2015-07-08 15:14:13 +08:00
dca
devfreq
dio
dma Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-07-01 17:47:51 -07:00
dma-buf
edac A build fix for octeon_edac from Aaro Koskinen. 2015-07-03 12:10:12 -07:00
eisa
extcon
firewire
firmware Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2015-07-03 15:20:57 -07:00
fmc
gpio Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-07-01 15:19:35 -07:00
gpu Revert "drm/i915: Use crtc_state->active in primary check_plane func" 2015-07-12 15:00:20 -07:00
hid Merge branches 'for-4.2/i2c-hid', 'for-4.2/lenovo', 'for-4.2/plantronics', 'for-4.2/rmi', 'for-4.2/sensor-hub', 'for-4.2/sjoy', 'for-4.2/sony' and 'for-4.2/wacom' into for-linus 2015-06-22 16:23:43 +02:00
hsi Fix up implicit <module.h> users that will break later. 2015-07-02 10:25:22 -07:00
hv
hwmon hwmon: (w83627ehf) Use swap() in w82627ehf_swap_tempreg() 2015-07-03 14:39:06 +02:00
hwspinlock hwspinlock: qcom: Correct msb in regmap_field 2015-07-01 16:15:05 +03:00
hwtracing/coresight
i2c i2c: Mark instantiated device nodes with OF_POPULATE 2015-07-09 22:25:54 +02:00
ide Minor merge needed, due to function move. 2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
idle
iio
infiniband IB/core: Destroy ocrdma_dev_id IDR on module exit 2015-07-14 13:20:16 -04:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2015-07-11 11:16:04 -07:00
iommu IOMMU Fixes for Linux v4.2-rc0 2015-07-01 14:44:22 -07:00
ipack
irqchip Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2015-07-12 13:55:24 -07:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-06-24 16:49:49 -07:00
leds Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/linux-leds 2015-07-01 19:09:11 -07:00
lguest Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
macintosh
mailbox Replace module_init with appropriate alternate initcall in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:36:29 -07:00
mcb
md block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs() 2015-08-13 12:32:04 -06:00
media Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/linux-leds 2015-07-01 19:09:11 -07:00
memory Merge branch 'fixes-rc1' into omap-for-v4.2/fixes 2015-07-06 05:33:17 -07:00
memstick memstick: remove deprecated use of pci api 2015-06-30 19:44:57 -07:00
message
mfd Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-07-01 15:19:35 -07:00
misc powerpc fixes for 4.2 2015-07-10 12:16:59 -07:00
mmc block: have drivers use blk_queue_max_discard_sectors() 2015-07-17 08:41:53 -06:00
mtd block: have drivers use blk_queue_max_discard_sectors() 2015-07-17 08:41:53 -06:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-07-13 11:18:25 -07:00
nfc Char/Misc driver patches for 4.2-rc1 2015-06-26 14:51:15 -07:00
ntb NTB: Add split BAR output for debugfs stats 2015-07-04 14:09:32 -04:00
nubus
nvdimm block: add a bi_error field to struct bio 2015-07-29 08:55:15 -06:00
of Devicetree changes for v4.2 2015-07-01 19:40:18 -07:00
oprofile
parisc
parport
pci Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-07-01 15:19:35 -07:00
pcmcia Fix up implicit <module.h> users that will break later. 2015-07-02 10:25:22 -07:00
phy Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2015-06-27 12:44:34 -07:00
pinctrl Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-07-01 15:19:35 -07:00
platform intel_scu_ipc: move local memory initialization out of a mutex 2015-07-14 11:02:44 -07:00
pnp ACPI / PNP: Reserve ACPI resources at the fs_initcall_sync stage 2015-07-06 23:52:21 +02:00
power Replace module_platform_driver with builtin_platform driver in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:42:13 -07:00
powercap
pps
ps3
ptp
pwm pwm: Changes for v4.2-rc1 2015-06-23 13:32:38 -07:00
rapidio Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2015-06-23 14:08:54 -07:00
ras
regulator Fix up implicit <module.h> users that will break later. 2015-07-02 10:25:22 -07:00
remoteproc remoteproc: fix !CONFIG_OF build breakage 2015-06-18 11:44:41 +03:00
reset
rpmsg
rtc Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2015-06-27 12:44:34 -07:00
s390 block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios 2015-08-13 12:31:33 -06:00
sbus
scsi block: have drivers use blk_queue_max_discard_sectors() 2015-07-17 08:41:53 -06:00
sfi
sh Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-07-01 15:19:35 -07:00
sn
soc ARM: SoC: late fixes and dependencies 2015-07-02 14:40:49 -07:00
spi Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/topic/sirf', 'spi/topic/spidev' and 'spi/topic/zynq' into spi-next 2015-06-18 00:19:56 +01:00
spmi
ssb
staging block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios 2015-08-13 12:31:33 -06:00
target block: add a bi_error field to struct bio 2015-07-29 08:55:15 -06:00
tc
thermal Minor merge needed, due to function move. 2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
thunderbolt
tty ARM: SoC: late fixes and dependencies 2015-07-02 14:40:49 -07:00
uio
usb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
uwb
vfio VFIO updates for v4.2 2015-06-28 12:32:13 -07:00
vhost Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2015-07-04 14:13:43 -07:00
video stifb: Implement hardware accelerated copyarea 2015-07-10 21:44:19 +02:00
virt
virtio virtio/vhost: cross endian support 2015-07-03 16:02:25 -07:00
vlynq
vme
w1
watchdog Merge git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog 2015-07-01 19:33:16 -07:00
xen Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2015-07-04 14:13:43 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support 2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00
Makefile The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the libnvdimm-core, 2015-06-29 10:34:42 -07:00