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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mmc: Improve block layer requeueing behavior
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To:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
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On 11/21/22 00:25, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 18/11/22 19:27, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On 11/18/22 02:47, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>> Does anyone know why the block layer does not support
>>> (max_hw_sectors << 9) < PAGE_SIZE ?
>>
>> Does this mean that the following patch series would not only be
>> useful for UFS but also for MMC? "[PATCH 00/10] Support DMA segments
>> smaller than the page size"
>> (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20221019222324.362705-1-bvanassche@acm.org/).
> 
> That patchset still does not allow max_hw_sectors = 1 which is
> what Christian's case needs.

Hi Adrian,

Why would that patch series not support max_hw_sectors = 1? What am I 
overlooking?

Thanks,

Bart.