linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/10] bcache: clean up hacks around bio_split

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Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:43:23 -0700
From:	Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@...fitbricks.com>,
	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] bcache: clean up hacks around bio_split_pool

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:48:31PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
>> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
>>
>> There has been workarounds only in bcache, for splitting pool as well
>> as submitting bios. Since generic_make_request() is able to handle
>> arbitrarily sized bios, it's now possible to delete those hacks.
>
> The Subject and description look confusing to me.
>
> From me reading of the code I'd word it as:
>
> Subject: bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
>
> The bcache driver has always accepted arbitrarily large bios and split
> them internally.  Now that every driver must accept arbitrarily large
> bios this code isn't nessecary anymore.

Will update it.
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