linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs

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Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:37:05 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Eric Wheeler <bcache@...ts.ewheeler.net>,
	Sebastian Roesner <sroesner-kernelorg@...sner-online.de>,
	"4.2+" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:30:22AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> Now limit.max_segments is for limiting segments from hw view, one this
>> segment may include lots of pages/bvecs.
>>
>> The current bio_clone() issue is that we can't clone from one bio which
>> includes more than 256 bvecs, maybe all these 256 bvecs belong to
>> one same hw segment.
>
> So the distinction is purely a post multipage bvec thing?

Even after multipage bvec is applied, the limit for max bvecs is still needed
for some cases like bio bounce, in which bio_clone() need to
clone single page bvec.

Thanks,


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