linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 92/99] btrfs: Switch memory allocations in async csum calculation path to kvmalloc

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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 09:37:36 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     dsterba@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 92/99] btrfs: Switch memory allocations in
 async csum calculation path to kvmalloc

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 09:49:19AM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
>On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 01:32:26AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit a3d46aea46f99d134b4e0726e4826b824c3e5980 ]
>>
>> Recent multi-page biovec rework allowed creation of bios that can span
>> large regions - up to 128 megabytes in the case of btrfs.
>
>Not necessary for 5.0/4.x as it depends on 5.1 changes.

Dropped it, thank you!

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Thanks,
Sasha