Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754365AbbESIow (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2015 04:44:52 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:45381 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754164AbbESIos (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2015 04:44:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:44:46 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ming Lin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Kent Overstreet , Dongsu Park , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES Message-ID: <20150519084446.GA374@lst.de> References: <1430980461-5235-1-git-send-email-mlin@kernel.org> <1430980461-5235-4-git-send-email-mlin@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430980461-5235-4-git-send-email-mlin@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 14 On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:34:13PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote: > From: Kent Overstreet > > Allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios with more than BIO_MAX_PAGES > segments. Doing that, it becomes possible to simplify the block layer > in the kernel. I can't see why we'd need this patch in the series. This seems to be from Kents work to allow largers bios and just have slipped in here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/