linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: fix q->max_segment_size checking in blk_recalc_rq

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:21:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com
Cc:	mpatocka@...hat.com, fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: fix q->max_segment_size checking in
 blk_recalc_rq_segments about VMERGE

From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:47:50 -0400

> I'm sorry sparc broke, really I am ... but you changed your iommu code
> from one with a working vmerge to one without and failed to turn off
> vmerging.  Partly it wasn't noticed because at 2*PAGE_SIZE you have a
> strange vmerge boundary, so it's harder to notice.   However, I can't
> extrapolate that just because this happened on sparc it will inevitably
> happen on all other architectures.

The vmerge boundary on sparc64 was 8K which is equal to sparc64's base
PAGE_SIZE.  I don't know where you get that 2*PAGE_SIZE from.

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