blk_queue_max_phys_segments(9)

blk_queue_max_phys_segments9

Set max phys segments for a request for this queue

Usage

void blk_queue_max_phys_segments(struct request_queue * q, unsigned short max_segments);

Arguments

q

the request queue for the device

max_segments

max number of segments

Overview

Enables a low level driver to set an upper limit on the number of physical data segments in a request. This would be the largest sized scatter list the driver could handle.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0

From linux-manual-2.6.32 2.6.32-48squeeze6 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.