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Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

Started byKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
First post2015-08-07 02:10 +0200
Last post2015-08-07 09:40 +0200
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  Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle  arbitrarily sized bios Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 02:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle  arbitrarily sized bios Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-07 09:40 +0200

#1202166 — Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

FromKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Date2015-08-07 02:10 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
Message-ID<pUDou-7TB-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 01:36:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 10:58:22PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> > I think the important thing is the late splitting for regular bio.
> > For discard/write_same bio, how about just don't do late splitting?
> 
> I'd hate having to special case them even more.  Especially as the
> discard splitting is nasty and we really don't want to send giant
> discards by default anyway (see Jens' patches to limit discard size
> by default).

Why is it that we don't want to send giant discards? Is it a latency issue?
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FromChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date2015-08-07 09:40 +0200
Message-ID<pUKpY-1dl-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1202166
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 05:00:04PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Why is it that we don't want to send giant discards? Is it a latency issue?

Yes.  Take a look at the "Configurable max discard size" thread(s).
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