Re: [PATCH v3] Re: another unusual flag for a really limited device

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Doug Maxey wrote:

> +	/* And at least one more device needs an even smaller max.
> +	 * When testing the native PAGE_SIZE, clamp at 8k.  No need
> +	 * allow a 64K or even 16M page in there.
> +	 */

Why not combine the code for the two flags, as shown in the partial 
patch below?

Also, trying to clamp at 8 KB is futile.  Read the source code for 
blk_queue_max_sectors() in drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c and you'll see.

Alan Stern


Index: usb-2.6/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
+++ usb-2.6/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
@@ -113,10 +113,19 @@ static int slave_configure(struct scsi_d
 	/* Many devices have trouble transfering more than 32KB at a time,
 	 * while others have trouble with more than 64K. At this time we
 	 * are limiting both to 32K (64 sectores).
+	 *
+	 * Some other devices have trouble transferring even that much.
+	 * We'll limit them to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, which is the minimum.
 	 */
-	if ((us->flags & US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_64) &&
-			sdev->request_queue->max_sectors > 64)
-		blk_queue_max_sectors(sdev->request_queue, 64);
+	if (us->flags & (US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_64 | US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_MIN)) {
+		unsigned int max_sectors = 64;
+
+		if (us->flags & US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_MIN)
+			max_sectors = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE >> 9;
+		if (sdev->request_queue->max_sectors > max_sectors)
+			blk_queue_max_sectors(sdev->request_queue,
+					max_sectors);
+	}
 
 	/* We can't put these settings in slave_alloc() because that gets
 	 * called before the device type is known.  Consequently these


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