From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCHv4] blk: Replace SG_GAPGS with new queue limits mask
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 06:50:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150806135018.GA8666@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438716733-566-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com>
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015@01:32:13PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> The SG_GAPS queue flag caused checks for bio vector alignment against
> PAGE_SIZE, but the device may have different constraints. This patch
> adds a queue limits so a driver with such constraints can set to allow
> requests that would have been unnecessarily split. The new gaps check
> takes the request_queue as a parameter to simplify the logic around
> invoking this function.
>
> This new limit makes the queue flag redundant, so removing it and
> all usage. Device-mappers will inherit the correct settings through
> blk_stack_limits().
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
Looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-06 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-04 19:32 [PATCHv4] blk: Replace SG_GAPGS with new queue limits mask Keith Busch
2015-08-05 1:45 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-06 13:50 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-08-19 19:12 ` Busch, Keith
2015-08-19 21:26 ` Jens Axboe
2015-08-06 17:36 ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-08-07 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-01 14:01 ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-09-01 16:20 ` Keith Busch
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