From: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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: Wed, 20 May 2015 11:17:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF1ivSZUkJW8Wv1P2qqJ12KVejTPTmL7f5TBkS+=msSxaCyv3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150519084446.GA374@lst.de>
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> 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.
I'll drop it and sent it separately.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-20 18:18 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
2015-05-20 18:17 ` Ming Lin [this message]
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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