Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs

From	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs
Date	2016-04-06 04:40 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Even after multipage bvec is applied, the limit for max bvecs is still needed
for some cases like bio bounce, in which bio_clone() need to
clone single page bvec.

Thanks,


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[PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-05 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2016-04-05 20:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 02:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 02:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 02:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 03:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2016-04-06 03:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2016-04-06 02:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2016-04-06 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 02:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2016-04-06 03:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 03:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 03:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 03:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 03:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 03:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 04:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 04:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 04:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 04:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 05:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 05:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 04:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 04:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-06 03:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net> - 2016-04-07 03:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net> - 2016-04-07 03:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-07 03:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net> - 2016-04-07 04:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-07 04:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256  bvecs Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net> - 2016-04-08 01:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-04-08 02:30 +0200

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