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From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] xen-blkfront: remove bio splitting.
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:46:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170421114622.ymoprc7a4h3g6xqi__28687.6994338401$1492775254$gmane$org@dhcp-3-128.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170421113620.GK12523@infradead.org>

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:36:20AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Btw, I really don't understand why this code even looks at bios over
> just requeueing the request.  Can someone explain that bit to me?

This was done because Linux could migrate from a host supporting indirect
descriptors to a host not supporting them, and so the maximum number of
segments per request could change, and the requests already on the queue might
need to be split.

Roger.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-20  5:38 [PATCH 00/10] block: assorted cleanup for bio splitting and cloning NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 00/11] " NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 01/11] blk: remove bio_set arg from blk_queue_split() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:14   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-22  9:16   ` Javier González
2017-04-24  2:32     ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 02/11] blk: make the bioset rescue_workqueue optional NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-24  1:51     ` NeilBrown
2017-04-24 15:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-01  5:00         ` NeilBrown
2017-05-01 14:02           ` Jens Axboe
2017-05-02  3:33             ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 07/11] pktcdvd: use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 05/11] rbd: " NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38   ` NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 03/11] blk: use non-rescuing bioset for q->bio_split NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 04/11] block: Improvements to bounce-buffer handling NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:39   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 06/11] drbd: use bio_clone_fast() instead of bio_clone() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 09/11] bcache: use kmalloc to allocate bio in bch_data_verify() NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38   ` NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 11:32   ` Kent Overstreet
2017-04-21 15:41   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 08/11] xen-blkfront: remove bio splitting NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38   ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38   ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20 10:00   ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-04-20 10:00   ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-04-20 10:00     ` Roger Pau Monné
2017-04-21 11:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 11:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 11:46     ` Roger Pau Monne [this message]
2017-04-21 11:46     ` Roger Pau Monne
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 11/11] block: don't check for BIO_MAX_PAGES in blk_bio_segment_split() NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:48     ` Ming Lei
2017-04-24  3:16       ` NeilBrown
2017-04-24  3:14     ` NeilBrown
2017-04-20  5:38 ` [PATCH 10/11] block: remove bio_clone() and all references NeilBrown
2017-04-21 11:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-21 15:43   ` Ming Lei

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