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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:59:28 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
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Subject: Re: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1
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"Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com> wrote:
>
> Martin may be overplaying the performance angle.
> 
> A previous patch took the adapter from 64K to 4MB transaction sizes
> across the board. This caused Martin's adapter and drive combination to
> tip-over. We had to scale back to 128KB sized transactions to get
> stability on his system. All systems handled the 4MB I/O size in our
> tests, but the tests that were done some time ago were not performed
> with the latest kernel, which contributed to a change in testing
> corners.

Confused.  The above appears to indicate that we should put the workaround
into 2.6.13, yes?