[SCSI] enable clustering for tmscsim
following an email from John Adams <johna@onevista.com> to me with a patch to enable tmscsim to use blocks up to 1MB and a discussion on linux-scsi, below is a patch to enable clustering for tmscsim. I made it switchable with a module parameter, with default "enable" - in case somebody gets problems with it. Unfortunately, I was not able to check if this alone lets you use any bigger blocks with a tape, as my tape seems to only support 1 block size - only "mt setblk 1" is successful, any other value fails. OTOH, testing on a P-133 showed that enabling clustering alone improves throughput by 10% and reduces CPU load by another 10%, so, seems a worthy thing to do. As for setting max_sectors, that might become a separate patch... Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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