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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	vijay.chauhan@netapp.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] block: do not artificially constrain max_sectors for stacking drivers
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:45:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5018EC94.1050405@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343781553-17089-1-git-send-email-snitzer@redhat.com>

On 08/01/2012 02:39 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> blk_set_stacking_limits is intended to allow stacking drivers to build
> up the limits of the stacked device based on the underlying devices'
> limits.  But defaulting 'max_sectors' to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS (1024)
> doesn't allow the stacking driver to inherit a max_sectors larger than
> 1024 -- due to blk_stack_limits' use of min_not_zero.
> 
> It is now clear that this artificial limit is getting in the way so
> change blk_set_stacking_limits's max_sectors to UINT_MAX (which allows
> stacking drivers like dm-multipath to inherit 'max_sectors' from the
> underlying paths).

Thanks Mike (and Vijay), applied for 3.6.

-- 
Jens Axboe

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-01  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-08 17:59 [PATCH] DM MULTIPATH: Allow dm to send larger request if underlying device set to larger max_sectors value Chauhan, Vijay
2012-07-09  1:01 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-07-09 12:34   ` Chauhan, Vijay
2012-07-09 13:00 ` Mike Snitzer
2012-07-09 13:16   ` Mike Snitzer
2012-07-09 13:40     ` Mike Snitzer
2012-07-09 14:14       ` [PATCH] block: do not artificially constrain max_sectors for stacking drivers Mike Snitzer
2012-07-09 14:57         ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Snitzer
2012-07-09 22:57           ` Mike Snitzer
2012-07-10 19:10             ` Chauhan, Vijay
2012-07-10 19:18               ` Mike Snitzer
2012-08-01  0:39                 ` [RESEND PATCH] " Mike Snitzer
2012-08-01  8:45                   ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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