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From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>,
	Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>,
	drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/27] block: drbd: remove impossible failure handling
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:42:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160405124238.GV3078@soda.linbit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459857443-20611-4-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 07:56:48PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> For a non-cloned bio, bio_add_page() only returns failure when
> the io vec table is full, but in that case, bio->bi_vcnt can't
> be zero at all.
> 
> So remove the impossible failure handling.

Before the immutable bvecs,
we did in fact see this trigger in the wild.
On "strange" deployments.

But for the current implementation of bio_add_page(),
you are correct, this is impossible now.

Ack.

Thanks,

    Lars

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-05 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05 11:56 [PATCH 00/27] block: cleanup direct access on .bi_vcnt & .bi_io_vec Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 01/27] block: bio: introduce 4 helpers for cleanup Ming Lei
2016-04-06  0:18   ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  1:34     ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  1:46       ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  2:11         ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  2:21           ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  4:11             ` Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 02/27] block: drbd: use bio_get_base_vec() to retrieve the 1st bvec Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 03/27] block: drbd: remove impossible failure handling Ming Lei
2016-04-05 12:42   ` Lars Ellenberg [this message]
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 04/27] block: loop: use bio_get_base_vec() to retrive bvec table Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 05/27] block: pktcdvd: " Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 06/27] block: floppy: use bio_set_vec_table() Ming Lei
2016-04-05 13:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 07/27] block: floppy: use bio_add_page() Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 08/27] staging: lustre: avoid to use bio->bi_vcnt directly Ming Lei
2016-04-05 12:59   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-05 13:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-10 14:37     ` James Simmons
2016-04-10 14:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-10 16:02         ` James Simmons
2016-04-11  3:30           ` Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 09/27] target: use bio_is_full() Ming Lei
2016-04-05 13:02   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-07  4:07     ` Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 10/27] bcache: debug: avoid to access .bi_io_vec directly Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 11/27] bcache: io.c: use bio_set_vec_table Ming Lei
2016-04-05 12:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-05 15:24     ` Ming Lei
2016-04-05 17:31       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-06  0:35     ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 12/27] bcache: journal.c: use bio_set_vec_table() Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 13/27] bcache: movinggc: " Ming Lei
2016-04-05 11:56 ` [PATCH 14/27] bcache: writeback: " Ming Lei

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