linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make

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Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:00:04 -0700
From:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Dongsu Park <dpark@...teo.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com>,
	drbd-user@...ts.linbit.com, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>, Jim Paris <jim@...n.com>,
	Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@...ibm.com>,
	Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Ming Lin <ming.l@....samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle
 arbitrarily sized bios

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 01:36:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 10:58:22PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> > I think the important thing is the late splitting for regular bio.
> > For discard/write_same bio, how about just don't do late splitting?
> 
> I'd hate having to special case them even more.  Especially as the
> discard splitting is nasty and we really don't want to send giant
> discards by default anyway (see Jens' patches to limit discard size
> by default).

Why is it that we don't want to send giant discards? Is it a latency issue?
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