What is the kernel parameters related to maximum size of physical I/O requests?
Issue
- What is the kernel parameters related to maximum size of physical I/O requests?
- How do I adjust the maximum I/O transfer size on RHEL?
- How do I set the maximum block device I/O transfer size on RHEL?
- How to set custom values for
/sys/block/<device>/queue/max_sectors_kbparameters? - Default
max_sectors_kbsetting - Do you have a proper way (reboot persistent, applies to current disks (devices), applies to disks (devices) that are added before next reboot) to change the default
max_sectors_kb?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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