From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
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Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 01:02:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150808090205.GA15061@kmo-pixel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C5C348.1070307@suse.de>
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 10:52:24AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Wouldn't it be easier to move both max_write_same_sectors and
> max_discard sectors to 64 bit (ie to type sector_t) and be done with the
> overflow?
> Seems to me this is far too much coding around self-imposed restrictions...
It's bio->bi_iter.bi_size that would have to be increased to 64 bits. Which I
suppose wouldn't actually increase the size of struct bio (when sector_t is 64
bits), since struct bvec_iter has padding right now...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-08 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-06 7:44 [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 02/11] block: simplify bio_add_page() Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 03/11] bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 04/11] btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 05/11] block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_discard Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 06/11] md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 07/11] md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev() Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 08/11] block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 09/11] fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec Ming Lin
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 10/11] block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs() Ming Lin
2015-07-06 10:58 ` Steven Whitehouse
2015-07-06 17:21 ` Ming Lin
2015-07-07 9:04 ` Steven Whitehouse
2015-07-06 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 11/11] Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios Ming Lin
2015-07-31 19:23 ` [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle " Mike Snitzer
2015-07-31 21:19 ` Ming Lin
2015-07-31 21:38 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-07-31 22:02 ` Ming Lin
2015-07-31 22:18 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-01 6:58 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-01 16:33 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-08-03 5:58 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-04 11:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-05 6:03 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-07 7:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-07 23:40 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-08 0:30 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-08-08 5:17 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-08 5:22 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-08-08 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-08 8:52 ` [dm-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2015-08-08 9:02 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2015-08-13 6:04 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-08-07 0:00 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-08-07 7:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-08 16:19 ` [dm-devel] " Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-09 5:59 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-09 6:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-09 6:55 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-09 7:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-09 7:18 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-10 15:02 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-08-10 16:14 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-10 16:18 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-10 16:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-10 18:13 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-08-10 22:30 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-10 16:22 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-10 18:18 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-11 2:00 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-11 2:41 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-08-11 3:38 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-08-11 14:08 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-08-11 17:49 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-11 18:05 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-11 20:56 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-12 0:24 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-12 4:41 ` Ming Lin
2015-08-11 17:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-08-11 17:47 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-08-11 18:01 ` [dm-devel] " Martin K. Petersen
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