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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?