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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: John Dorminy <jdorminy@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: block: Fix a WRITE SAME BUG_ON
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:14:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190128221441.GA24102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMeeMh_=UVGwo-=9WtBXRmiHTXnLAswqis97bM-aiuwnzPU0QQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 26 2019 at  6:17am -0500,
John Dorminy <jdorminy@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi. I have read a bit of DM code and spent an hour reviewing this... I
> didn't get to the point of knowing what the right fix for the problem
> is, and I may have a wrong understanding, but I have two thoughts
> about the patch:
> 
> I don't think this is the right solution for two reasons:
> 
> In the first place, if it's an LVM-only issue, we should fix it only
> for device-mapper devices. If this is the right way to fix it,
> possibly the way to do that would be to change DM calls to
> blk_queue_max_write_same_sectors() to only set the max sectors to more
> than 0 if and only if the logical block sizes match.

There is no way this is specific to lvm (or DM).  It may _seem_ that way
because lvm/dm are in the business of creating stacked devices --
whereby exposing users to blk_stack_limits().

I'll have a closer look at this issue, hopefully tomorrow, but Zhang
Xiaoxu's proposed fix looks bogus to me.  Not disputing there is an
issue, just feels like a different fix is needed.

Mike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-28 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190125021107.4595-1-zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com>
2019-01-26 11:17 ` [dm-devel] [v2] block: Fix a WRITE SAME BUG_ON John Dorminy
2019-01-28  5:48   ` zhangxiaoxu (A)
2019-01-28 22:14   ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2019-01-29  4:54     ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-01-29  8:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-30  6:50         ` zhangxiaoxu (A)
2019-01-30 14:08       ` John Dorminy
2019-01-31  0:58         ` zhangxiaoxu (A)
2019-01-31  2:23         ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-01-31 10:39         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 19:41           ` John Dorminy
2019-02-01  7:35             ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 14:09               ` John Dorminy
2019-02-01 16:03                 ` [dm-devel] " Heinz Mauelshagen
2019-02-01 16:18                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-12  3:11                     ` zhangxiaoxu (A)
2019-02-14  2:31                       ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-14  9:36                         ` zhangxiaoxu (A)
2019-02-18 14:10                           ` zhangxiaoxu (A)
2019-02-19 23:10                             ` Martin K. Petersen

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