linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: respect virtual boundary mask in bvecs

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Date:   Tue, 6 Nov 2018 19:14:22 -0800
From:   Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To:     Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Cc:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: respect virtual boundary mask in bvecs


> blktrace won't help on this issue because .bv_offset isn't recorded.
> 
> This patch makes sense on >4KB PAGE_SIZE. If your issue happens on
> ARCH with 4K PAGE_SIZE, maybe you should root cause why it makes a
> difference on iSer. And it is highly possible there is bug somewhere.

I don't suspect that this is the case. unless all the vec elements
happen to have an offset but if that is the case I don't think that
this patch would've solved this.

It can't really be an iser issue because iser does not control bio
splitting/merging... it can only ask the block layer to obay the
virt_boundary.