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Authored by rosenfeld_grumpf.hope-2000.org on Oct 30 2025, 7:37 AM.
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Summary

The old default of 2 for max_sectors limits performance significantly
with guest systems where the virtio-scsi driver actually honors this
value.

As CTL doesn't seem to have any limit of the maximum size of a single
transfer, set this to INT32_MAX by default.

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