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

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Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:05:14 -0400
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>,
	axboe@...com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com>,
	Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Ming Lin <ming.l@....samsung.com>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jim Paris <jim@...n.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Dongsu Park <dpark@...teo.net>, drbd-user@...ts.linbit.com,
	Joe Thornber <ejt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin K Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com> writes:

Martin> I agree except I really don't want to lop off anything unless
Martin> the device locks up if we send it partial blocks. There was an
Martin> array that had problems a while back but I believe they have
Martin> been fixed.

Oh, and there are several arrays out there that have allocation units
that are not powers of two. *sigh*

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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