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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:36:56 -0800
From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 07:02:53AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Please just fix bcache to not submit bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES for
> now, until we can support such callers in general and enable common
> used code to do so.

Christoph, what's wrong with Ming's patch? Leaving bcache aside, just
considering the block layer, do you think that patch is the wrong approach?