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Damien Le Moal 9b8b84879d block: Increase BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP 
Back in 2015, commit d2be537c3b ("block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to
2560") increased the default maximum size of a block device I/O to 2560
sectors (1280 KiB) to "accommodate a 10-data-disk stripe write with
chunk size 128k". This choice is rather arbitrary and since then,
improvements to the block layer have software RAID drivers correctly
advertize their stripe width through chunk_sectors and abuses of
BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP by drivers (to set the HW limit rather than the
default user controlled maximum I/O size) have been fixed.

Since many block devices can benefit from a larger value of
BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP, and in particular HDDs, increase this value to
be 4MiB, or 8192 sectors.

And given that BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP is only used in the block layer
and should not be used by drivers directly, move this macro definition
to the block layer internal header file block/blk.h.

Suggested-by: Martin K . Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618060045.37593-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2025-06-30 15:50:31 -06:00
arch - Make sure DR6 and DR7 are initialized to their architectural values and not 2025-06-29 08:28:24 -07:00
block block: Increase BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP 2025-06-30 15:50:31 -06:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: wp512 - Use API partial block handling 2025-06-23 16:56:56 +08:00
Documentation TTY/Serial driver fixes for 6.16-rc4 2025-06-29 09:21:27 -07:00
drivers Staging driver fix for 6.16-rc4 2025-06-29 09:25:55 -07:00
fs six smb3 client fixes 2025-06-27 20:38:05 -07:00
include block: Increase BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP 2025-06-30 15:50:31 -06:00
init init: fix build warnings about export.h 2025-06-11 22:42:36 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.16-20250626 2025-06-27 08:55:57 -07:00
ipc - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
kernel - Make sure an AUX perf event is really disabled when it overruns 2025-06-29 08:16:02 -07:00
lib 16 hotfixes. 6 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-06-27 20:34:10 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add CC0-1.0 license text 2025-05-21 14:54:17 +02:00
mm mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: free old damon_sysfs_scheme_filter->memcg_path on write 2025-06-25 15:55:03 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-06-26 09:13:27 -07:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.16-rc3 2025-06-18 14:31:16 -07:00
samples - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
scripts scripts/gdb: fix dentry_name() lookup 2025-06-25 15:55:03 -07:00
security selinux: change security_compute_sid to return the ssid or tsid on match 2025-06-19 16:13:16 -04:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix built-in mic on ASUS VivoBook X507UAR 2025-06-26 08:02:44 +02:00
tools LoongArch fixes for v6.16-rc4 2025-06-28 11:35:11 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-lockdep-common' into HEAD 2025-05-28 06:29:17 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
.mailmap 16 hotfixes. 6 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-06-27 20:34:10 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS CREDITS: Add entry for Shannon Nelson 2025-06-21 07:34:28 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.16-rc4 2025-06-28 15:23:17 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.16-rc4 2025-06-29 13:09:04 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

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.