linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs

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Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:12:10 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Eric Wheeler <bcache@...ts.ewheeler.net>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list:BCACHE (BLOCK LAYER CACHE)" <linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list:SOFTWARE RAID (Multiple Disks) SUPPORT" 
	<linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Roesner <sroesner-kernelorg@...sner-online.de>,
	"4.3+" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> Please just fix bcache to not submit bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES for
> now, until we can support such callers in general and enable common
> used code to do so.

IMO it can't be efficient to do that in bcache because it need to figure out
how many bvecs one bio includes.

This patch(block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs)
can support such callers.

Also this kind of usage does simplify drivers.

Thanks,
Ming

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