linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] blk: increase logical_block

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 23:33:44 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@....com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] blk: increase logical_block_size to unsigned int

On (01/09/17 14:04), Minchan Kim wrote:
> Mostly, zram is used as swap system on embedded world so it want to do IO
> as PAGE_SIZE aligned/size IO unit. For that, one of the problem was
> blk_queue_logical_block_size(zram->disk->queue, PAGE_SIZE) made overflow
> in *64K page system* so [1] changed it to constant 4096.
> Since that, partial IO can happen so zram should handle it which makes zram
> complicated[2].
> 

I thought that zram partial IO support is there because some file
systems cannot cope with large logical_block_size. like FAT, for
example. am I wrong?

	-ss