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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 09:15:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 09:15:35 -0700 |
| commit | 929cfdd5d3bdc772aff32e5a3fb4e3894394aa75 (patch) | |
| tree | f67202d079eaf1f8d65b2e1bfac70b768ae34bc4 /Documentation | |
| parent | 798ce8f1cca29dcc3f4b55947f611f4ffb32ac2b (diff) | |
| parent | a1c15c59feee36267c43142a41152fbf7402afb6 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-2.6.40/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.40/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (110 commits)
loop: handle on-demand devices correctly
loop: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS
drbd: fix warning
drbd: fix warning
drbd: Fix spelling
drbd: fix schedule in atomic
drbd: Take a more conservative approach when deciding max_bio_size
drbd: Fixed state transitions after async outdate-peer-handler returned
drbd: Disallow the peer_disk_state to be D_OUTDATED while connected
drbd: Fix for the connection problems on high latency links
drbd: fix potential activity log refcount imbalance in error path
drbd: Only downgrade the disk state in case of disk failures
drbd: fix disconnect/reconnect loop, if ping-timeout == ping-int
drbd: fix potential distributed deadlock
lru_cache.h: fix comments referring to ts_ instead of lc_
drbd: Fix for application IO with the on-io-error=pass-on policy
xen/p2m: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the M2P override functions.
xen/p2m/m2p/gnttab: Support GNTMAP_host_map in the M2P override.
xen/blkback: don't fail empty barrier requests
xen/blkback: fix xenbus_transaction_start() hang caused by double xenbus_transaction_end()
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt index 89698e8df7d4..c00c6a5ab21f 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt @@ -169,3 +169,18 @@ is issued which positions the tape to a known position. Typically you must rewind the tape (by issuing "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind" for example) before i/o can proceed again to a tape drive which was reset. +There is a cciss_tape_cmds module parameter which can be used to make cciss +allocate more commands for use by tape drives. Ordinarily only a few commands +(6) are allocated for tape drives because tape drives are slow and +infrequently used and the primary purpose of Smart Array controllers is to +act as a RAID controller for disk drives, so the vast majority of commands +are allocated for disk devices. However, if you have more than a few tape +drives attached to a smart array, the default number of commands may not be +enought (for example, if you have 8 tape drives, you could only rewind 6 +at one time with the default number of commands.) The cciss_tape_cmds module +parameter allows more commands (up to 16 more) to be allocated for use by +tape drives. For example: + + insmod cciss.ko cciss_tape_cmds=16 + +Or, as a kernel boot parameter passed in via grub: cciss.cciss_tape_cmds=8 |