linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX

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Message-ID: <20150519084446.GA374@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 10:44:46 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Dongsu Park <dpark@...teo.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle
	bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:34:13PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
> 
> Allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios with more than BIO_MAX_PAGES
> segments. Doing that, it becomes possible to simplify the block layer
> in the kernel.

I can't see why we'd need this patch in the series.  This seems to be
from Kents work to allow largers bios and just have slipped in here.
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