block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap
Set max_sectors to the value the drivers provides as hardware limit by
default. Linux had proper I/O throttling for a long time and doesn't
rely on a artifically small maximum I/O size anymore. By not limiting
the I/O size by default we remove an annoying tuning step required for
most Linux installation.
Note that both the user, and if absolutely required the driver can still
impose a limit for FS requests below max_hw_sectors_kb.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index aa02247..6ed2cbe 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -257,9 +257,7 @@
__func__, max_hw_sectors);
}
- limits->max_hw_sectors = max_hw_sectors;
- limits->max_sectors = min_t(unsigned int, max_hw_sectors,
- BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS);
+ limits->max_sectors = limits->max_hw_sectors = max_hw_sectors;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_limits_max_hw_sectors);