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From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net>,
	Sebastian Roesner <sroesner-kernelorg@roesner-online.de>,
	"4.2+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 18:34:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160406023411.GA7793@kmo-pixel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVP2i+0Pw=JwP4m-q7d8n-PAsceFpUkAntVbEeJQBS=UCQ@mail.gmail.com>

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?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05 17:44 [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei
2016-04-05 18:27 ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-06  0:27   ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  0:30     ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-06  0:36       ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  0:41         ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-06  0:45           ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  0:59             ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-06  1:05               ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  0:47   ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  1:04     ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-06  1:11       ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  0:30 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  0:59   ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  1:10     ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  1:20       ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  1:28         ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  1:51           ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  2:22             ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  2:30               ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  2:34                 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2016-04-06  2:37                   ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  2:40                     ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  2:51                       ` Ming Lei
2016-04-06  2:58                         ` Kent Overstreet
2016-04-06  1:02 ` Ming Lei
2016-04-07  1:48   ` Eric Wheeler
2016-04-07  1:36 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-04-07  1:49   ` Ming Lei
2016-04-07  1:56     ` Eric Wheeler
2016-04-07  2:16       ` Ming Lei
2016-04-07 23:29         ` Eric Wheeler
2016-04-08  0:21           ` Ming Lei

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