On Tue, Apr 04 2000, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> > It could get in there if the write / read is big enough, nothing is
> > limiting the number of request segments for such hardware right now
> > (aside from the ll_rw_blk default MAX_SEGMENTS).
>
> No, the code in scsi_merge.c should be checking the limit. In
> aha1542.h, the symbol is AHA1542_SCATTER, and this is stored in the host
> template in the field sg_tablesize. In scsi_merge.c there are places all
> over where we check against this limit before we allow another segment to be
> added, and someplace this isn't working correctly.
Of course you are right, I hadn't looked closely enough at the merging
in scsi_merge.c. Initially I can't see why an extra segment could
get added.
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