Seems like it is not a problem of the driver.

I run a benchmark with hdparm and it seems like the tool is just 
requesting the data in 4k blocks. Is this possible?

With normal file operations I can see packets with 16 sectors.

Ed Cashin schrieb:
> On Fri May 22 07:19:45 EDT 2009, philip.kirchh...@solectrix.de wrote:
>> Hello Ed,
>>
>> I was now able to install the driver. But still the number of requested 
>> sectors is not higher than 8.
>> Do you have any other idea?
> 
> Which driver did you install and which is running?  You can tell by
> examining the output of aoe-version.
> 
> If it's version 71, and you only see 4 KiB payloads (you can see the
> payload size in the output of today's aoe-stat), then the driver is
> probably choosing to use a smaller size because either the local
> interface is something like 4200, or else the target's advertised
> buffer count is eight.
> 
> Those are the two inputs to the decision the aoe driver uses to
> determine payload size.
> 


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