From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:44:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519084446.GA374@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430980461-5235-4-git-send-email-mlin@kernel.org>
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:34:13PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
>
> Allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios with more than BIO_MAX_PAGES
> segments. Doing that, it becomes possible to simplify the block layer
> in the kernel.
I can't see why we'd need this patch in the series. This seems to be
from Kents work to allow largers bios and just have slipped in here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-19 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-07 6:34 [PATCH v3 00/11] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-05-18 16:52 ` Jeff Moyer
2015-05-18 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-22 7:51 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-20 18:30 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-20 18:58 ` Jeff Moyer
2015-05-20 20:18 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-22 17:49 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-20 12:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 18:16 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] block: simplify bio_add_page() Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES Ming Lin
2015-05-19 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-05-20 18:17 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev() Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read Ming Lin
2015-05-08 4:14 ` NeilBrown
2015-05-08 5:57 ` Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec Ming Lin
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] md/raid10: make sync_request_write() call bio_copy_data() Ming Lin
2015-05-19 8:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 3:09 ` NeilBrown
2015-05-07 6:34 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-05-18 16:13 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 12:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 18:10 ` Ming Lin
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