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The soft max_sectors limit is normally capped by the hardware limits and an arbitrary upper limit enforced by the kernel, but can be modified by the user. A few drivers want to increase this limit (nbd, rbd) or adjust it up or down based on hardware capabilities (sd). Change blk_validate_limits to default max_sectors to the optimal I/O size, or upgrade it to the preferred minimal I/O size if that is larger than the kernel default if no optimal I/O size is provided based on the logic in the SD driver. This keeps the existing kernel default for drivers that do not provide an io_opt or very big io_min value, but picks a much more useful default for those who provide these hints, and allows to remove the hacks to set the user max_sectors limit in nbd, rbd and sd. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240531074837.1648501-5-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.