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authorJames Bottomley2008-01-01 17:00:10 +0100
committerJames Bottomley2008-01-12 01:29:22 +0100
commit465ff3185e0cb76d46137335a4d21d0d9d3ac8a2 (patch)
tree171068cd7d99600cd094c2eb72bac712649fd9eb /drivers/scsi
parent[SCSI] block: Introduce new blk_queue_update_dma_alignment interface (diff)
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[SCSI] relax scsi dma alignment
This patch relaxes the default SCSI DMA alignment from 512 bytes to 4 bytes. I remember from previous discussions that usb and firewire have sector size alignment requirements, so I upped their alignments in the respective slave allocs. The reason for doing this is so that we don't get such a huge amount of copy overhead in bio_copy_user() for udev. (basically all inquiries it issues can now be directly mapped). Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index db52222885b7..de601370c05b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1668,6 +1668,14 @@ struct request_queue *__scsi_alloc_queue(struct Scsi_Host *shost,
if (!shost->use_clustering)
clear_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER, &q->queue_flags);
+
+ /*
+ * set a reasonable default alignment on word boundaries: the
+ * host and device may alter it using
+ * blk_queue_update_dma_alignment() later.
+ */
+ blk_queue_dma_alignment(q, 0x03);
+
return q;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__scsi_alloc_queue);