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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
	Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-nvme <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvmet: set loop queue's segment boundary mask as PAGE_SIZE - 1
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:39:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190327083952.GA21122@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVNeSboKKSvYkpTvdVC-Ou-Zun-7ziULcTR3SDM+T_E-ng@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 04:26:26PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:15 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:37:36PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:36 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Note that in many cases allocating larger pages in the other targets
> > > > would be useful.  Given that you fix the one places where we made a page
> > > > size assumption I don't see a great need to limit outselves here.
> > >
> > > block device backed ns still needs this patch.
> >
> > Then we need to fix that code as well.  Or even better make bio_add_page
> > handle the larger than page case fine if it really doesn't do that yet.
> 
> Given loop is the only exception, this patch is exactly the fix, right?

Well, we want to be able to pass multi-page biovecs everywhere, so I think
we'd just solve this based on loop so that we can later take advantage of
it everywhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-27  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190326031928.9499-1-ming.lei@redhat.com>
2019-03-26  3:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] nvmet: set loop queue's segment boundary mask as PAGE_SIZE - 1 Ming Lei
2019-03-26  7:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-26  7:37     ` Ming Lei
2019-03-26  7:39       ` Ming Lei
2019-03-27  8:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-27  8:26         ` Ming Lei
2019-03-27  8:39           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-03-26  3:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] nvmet: fix computation of io vector number Ming Lei
2019-03-26  7:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-26  7:50     ` Ming Lei
2019-03-27  8:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-26  3:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] nvmet: fix computation of bvec->bv_len Ming Lei

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