Re: Limit number of integrity segments

[Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>]

On 2010-09-10 07:32, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> [My script defaulted to Jens' old address.  Sorry about the repost]
> 
> First patch moves min_not_zero() to kernel.h.  It's currently defined
> several places throughout the block layer and I was about to introduce
> another instance.  So let's make this generic.
> 
> Second patch works around the limitations in the zfcp hardware by
> introducing a limit on the number of integrity scatterlist elements.
> Christof will post a separate patch that updates the zfcp driver to take
> advantage of this.
> 
> I'd prefer we if could feed everything, including the SCSI changes,
> through the block tree.  I have had to change some existing interfaces
> so a post-merge tree will not cut it and compatibility wrappers seem
> like an overkill for this.

So this is a bug and we want to fix it, but it's not a strict
regression against earlier releases. So based on that .37 should
be fine. But there's definitely some reasons for shoving it into
.35 as well. What was your intention?

-- 
Jens Axboe