linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] block: fix bio splitting on max sectors

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:44:14 -0700
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefan Haberland <sth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] block: fix bio splitting on max sectors

On 01/22/2016 05:05 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> After commit e36f62042880(block: split bios to maxpossible length),
> bio can be splitted in the middle of a vector entry, then it
> is easy to split out one bio which size isn't aligned with block
> size, especially when the block size is bigger than 512.
>
> This patch fixes the issue by making the max io size aligned
> to logical block size.
>
> Fixes: e36f62042880(block: split bios to maxpossible length)
> Reported-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> ---
> V1:
> 	- avoid double shift as suggested by Linus
> 	- compute 'max_sectors' once as suggested by Keith

This looks good to me, I'll apply and run a bit of local testing.

-- 
Jens Axboe