From 6ed33a4a0b86da42638b5f6a0bb9f9f9aee89f60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Mahoney Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:20:41 -0400 Subject: [SCSI] st: raise device limit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The device limit of 128 tape drives was established in 2003 as a significant increase from the 8 tape drives allowed previously. We're seeing customer sites that between a large number of drives and multipath are discovering more than 128 devices and running into problems. Now that we're not stuck having to store a pointer in array and aren't limited by kmalloc failing on higher order allocs we can lift the limit to fill the entire minor range based on the number of modes. Based on the current code, that's 2^17 devices. Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- Documentation/scsi/st.txt | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/scsi') diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt index 685bf3582ab..f346abbdd6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt @@ -112,10 +112,8 @@ attempted). MINOR NUMBERS -The tape driver currently supports 128 drives by default. This number -can be increased by editing st.h and recompiling the driver if -necessary. The upper limit is 2^17 drives if 4 modes for each drive -are used. +The tape driver currently supports up to 2^17 drives if 4 modes for +each drive are used. The minor numbers consist of the following bit fields: -- cgit v1.2.3