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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib: Align max_sectors to kb
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:20:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240419062035.GA12480@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410750a52af76fdc3bcf6265c9036037cb8141da.camel@suse.com>

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 06:46:06PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > Why would we?  It makes absolutly no sense to inherit these limits,
> > the lower device will split anyway which is very much the point of
> > the immutable bio_vec work.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I don't follow. With (request-based) dm-multipath on top of
> SCSI, we hit the "over max size limit" condition in
> blk_insert_cloned_request() [1], which will cause IO to fail at the dm
> level. So at least in this configuration, it's crucial that the upper
> device inherit the lower device's limits.

Oh, indeed.  Request based multipath is different from everyone else.
I really wish we could spend the effort to convert it to bio based
and remove this special case..


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-19  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-18  7:00 [PATCH] scsi_lib: Align max_sectors to kb Hannes Reinecke
2024-04-18  7:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-04-18  7:42   ` Hannes Reinecke
2024-04-18  9:00     ` Martin Wilck
2024-04-18 14:51     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-04-18 16:46       ` Martin Wilck
2024-04-19  6:20         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-04-19  8:27           ` Martin Wilck
2024-04-22  7:28             ` Christoph Hellwig

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