From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: PATCH 3/6 - direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous requests Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:03:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20100806120358.GA31601@infradead.org> References: <4C5BE8DB.5030503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Josef Bacik , hch@infradead.org, Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Ehrhardt Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C5BE8DB.5030503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Something is deeply wrong here. Raw block device access has a 1:1 mapping between logical and physical block numbers. They really should never be non-contiguous.