From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add split_alignment for request queue
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:29:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616072955.GA30385@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200616005633.172804-1-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:56:33PM -0700, Harshad Shirwadkar wrote:
> This feature allows the user to control the alignment at which request
> queue is allowed to split bios. Google CloudSQL's 16k user space
> application expects that direct io writes aligned at 16k boundary in
> the user-space are not split by kernel at non-16k boundaries.
That is a completely bogus assumptions and people who think they can
make that assumption should not be allowed to write software.
Can we stop this crap now please?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-16 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-16 0:56 [PATCH] block: add split_alignment for request queue Harshad Shirwadkar
2020-06-16 2:14 ` John Dorminy
2020-06-16 2:25 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-06-16 2:40 ` Ming Lei
2020-06-16 2:50 ` harshad shirwadkar
2020-06-16 3:24 ` harshad shirwadkar
2020-06-16 4:16 ` Ming Lei
2020-06-16 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-06-16 11:12 ` Sweet Tea Dorminy
2020-06-16 14:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
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