raid5 will split bio to proper size internally, there is no point to use
underlayer disk's max_hw_sectors. In my qemu system, without the change,
the raid5 only receives 128k size bio, which reduces the chance of bio
merge sending to underlayer disks.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <redacted>
---
drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index b95c54c..fc0b600 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -7066,6 +7066,8 @@ static int raid5_run(struct mddev *mddev)
else
queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD,
mddev->queue);
+
+ blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(mddev->queue, UINT_MAX);
}
if (journal_dev) {--
2.8.0.rc2