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

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:04:42 +0200
From:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
CC:	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Neil@...hat.com,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, Al@...hat.com,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com>,
	Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
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	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Dongsu Park <dpark@...teo.net>, drbd-user@...ts.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request
 handle arbitrarily sized bios

On 08/08/2015 11:02 AM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 10:52:24AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be easier to move both max_write_same_sectors and
>> max_discard sectors to 64 bit (ie to type sector_t) and be done with the
>> overflow?
>> Seems to me this is far too much coding around self-imposed restrictions...
> 
> It's bio->bi_iter.bi_size that would have to be increased to 64 bits. Which I
> suppose wouldn't actually increase the size of struct bio (when sector_t is 64
> bits), since struct bvec_iter has padding right now...
> 
Which I guess we should be doing anyway.
Devices are getting larger and larger, so in the long run in need to
be moved to 64 bits.

Cheers,

Hannes
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