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And than Greg KH spoke these words:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:31:55PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:
From: Hank Janssen <redacted>

Increased storvsc ringbuffer and max_io_requests. This now more 
closely mimics the numbers on Hyper-V.

What do you mean by this?  The max provided by the hypervisor?

Max_IO is set to double from what it was before, Hyper-V allows it and
We have had appliance builder requests to see if it was a problem to increase
The number.

Ringbuffer size for storvsc is now increased because I have seen 
A few buffer problems on extremely busy systems. They where 
Set pretty low before. And since max_io_requests is increased I
Really needed to increase the buffer as well.

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And will allow more IO requests to take place for the SCSI driver.

Which means what, better throughput?  Or just more outstanding requests and the same speed overall?

It means better throughput of high load systems, else you get buffer
Contention. 

Thanks,

Hank.