Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:30:01 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios |
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I'm for solution 3:
- keep blk_bio_{discard,write_same}_split, but ensure we never built a > 4GB bio in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}.
Note that this isn't special casing, we can't build > 4GB bios for data either, it's just implemented as a side effect right now instead of checked explicitly.
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