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Date:      Sat, 14 Nov 2020 08:26:14 -0500
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: MAXPHYS bump for FreeBSD 13
Message-ID:  <e44b6258-24e4-b28d-7139-0abf004a8b72@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <07a4ca53-da9d-e7b2-9af3-c5098f15a5c7@selasky.org>
References:  <1bff381f-3d6e-b20c-28f9-1403a9dfe0f6@FreeBSD.org> <07a4ca53-da9d-e7b2-9af3-c5098f15a5c7@selasky.org>

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On 14.11.2020 06:22, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 11/14/20 5:14 AM, Alexander Motin wrote:
>>> We currently have a MAXPHYS of 128k. This is the maximum size of I/Os
>>> that we normally use (though there are exceptions).
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose that we bump MAXPHYS to 1MB, as well as bumping
>>> DFLTPHYS to 1MB.
>>
>> I am all for the MAXPHYS change, as Warner told it was my proposition on
>> a chat.  ZFS uses blocks and aggregates I/O up to 1MB already and can
>> more potentially, and having I/O size lower then this just overflows
>> disk queues, increases processing overheads, complicates scheduling and
>> in some cases causes starvation.
>>
>> I'd just like to note that DFLTPHYS should probably not be changed that
>> straight (if at all), since it is used as a fallback for legacy code.
>> If it is used for anything else -- that should be reviewed and probably
>> migrated to some other constant(s)>
> Beware that many USB 2.0 devices will break if you try to transfer more
> than 64K. Buggy SCSI implementations!

Yes, thanks, I remember.  The code reports MAXPHYS only for
USB_SPEED_SUPER devices, relying on DFLTPHYS fallback in CAM otherwise.
 I think slower ones could just be hardcoded to 64KB to be certain.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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