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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	axboe@kernel.dk, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] block: Make generic_make_request handle arbitrary sized bios
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:09:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131126060921.GB6434@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385418633-9753-2-git-send-email-kmo@daterainc.com>

> +	q->bio_split = bioset_create(4, 0);
> +	if (!q->bio_split)
> +		goto fail_id;

How did we arrive at a mempool size of 4 to make sure we can always make
progress with arbitrarily sized bios?  Shouldn't we document the design
decision somewhere?

> +static struct bio *blk_bio_discard_split(struct request_queue *q,
> +					 struct bio *bio,
> +					 struct bio_set *bs)
> +{

One fallout of this should be that it would allows us to impement
a range UNMAP/TRIP much more easily, which would help dramatically
with TRIM performance!

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-26  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-25 22:30 [PATCH] Make generic_make_request() handle arbitrary size bios Kent Overstreet
2013-11-25 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] block: Make generic_make_request handle arbitrary sized bios Kent Overstreet
2013-11-26  6:09   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-11-26  7:21     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-11-25 22:30 ` [PATCH 2/5] mtip32xx: handle arbitrary size bios Kent Overstreet
2013-11-26  6:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-26  7:32     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-11-25 22:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] block: Gut bio_add_page() Kent Overstreet
2013-11-25 22:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] blk-lib.c: generic_make_request() handles large bios now Kent Overstreet
2013-11-27 12:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-27 21:34     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-11-25 22:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] bcache: " Kent Overstreet

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