From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Umesh Patel <Umesh.Patel@wdc.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BIO request larger than our storage device supports in linux kernel 4.x
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:22:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbd74faf-455d-eacb-9d1b-e10687d6541d@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CY1PR0401MB1353D1D8B5FB4E58AE1ABA5EE12E0@CY1PR0401MB1353.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On 03/08/2017 11:20 AM, Umesh Patel wrote:
>> You are doing it wrong, you should be writing this as a blk-mq driver.
>> Not only would that fix your issue, it would also solve a host of
>> other issues that I'm sure your driver has since it hasn't even been
>> reviewed.
>
> [Umesh] : This has been working since 2.x kernel to till 3.18. It has
> this issue only in 4.x.
And had your driver been in the kernel, it would still be working. I already
told you what is wrong, go back and read the first reply.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-08 18:22 UTC|newest]
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2017-03-08 9:34 ` BIO request larger than our storage device supports in linux kernel 4.x Umesh Patel
2017-03-08 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-08 15:04 ` Jens Axboe
2017-03-08 18:08 ` Umesh Patel
2017-03-08 18:13 ` Jens Axboe
2017-03-08 18:20 ` Umesh Patel
2017-03-08 18:22 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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