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2     set hard and soft limit of max sectors for request
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">blk_limits_max_hw_sectors </b>(</code></td><td>struct queue_limits * <var class="pdparam">limits</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>unsigned int <var class="pdparam">max_hw_sectors</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1128402132"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>limits</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     the queue limits
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>max_hw_sectors</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     max hardware sectors in the usual 512b unit
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8   Enables a low level driver to set a hard upper limit,
9   max_hw_sectors, on the size of requests.  max_hw_sectors is set by
10   the device driver based upon the capabilities of the I/O
11   controller.
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14   max_sectors is a soft limit imposed by the block layer for
15   filesystem type requests.  This value can be overridden on a
16   per-device basis in /sys/block/&lt;device&gt;/queue/max_sectors_kb.
17   The soft limit can not exceed max_hw_sectors.
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