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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
	"4.3+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:46:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160613154614.GC23990@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <575AA66D.5010407@suse.de>

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:37:17PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hmm. So everybody is suffering because someone _might_ be using bio_clone?
> Why can't we fixup bio_clone() (or the callers of which) to correctly
> set the queue limits?

The only one suffering is bcache.  Everyone else uses bios below the
block layer arbitrary max size.  The fixup to allow bio_clone support
a larger size is the same one as to allow everyone else submitting
larger bios:  increase BIO_MAX_PAGES and create the required mempools
to back that new larger size.  Or just go for multipage biovecs..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-13 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-10 11:07 [PATCH v2] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei
2016-06-10 11:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-06-10 14:16   ` Ming Lei
2016-06-13 15:46   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-04-06  3:43 [PATCH v1] " Ming Lei
2016-08-11  6:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Eric Wheeler
2016-08-11 14:02   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-12 11:12     ` Ming Lei
2016-08-12 16:36     ` Kent Overstreet

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