Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:56:30 +0200 | From | Johannes Thumshirn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: bios with an offset are always gappy |
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:48:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I think we should also turns this into a WARN_ON_ONCE + error return.. > > But do you have an exact btrfsprogs version and command line? I do a lot > of testing that involves mkfs.btrfs on nvme and haven't seen it..
Sure, it's: mkfs.btrfs, part of btrfs-progs v4.5.3+20160729
Qemu is 2.6.2
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> > I think the code in NVMe (and potentially the other drivers using > virt_queue_boundary) is bogus. All of them are actually fine with > gaps in the protocol, as long as the gaps are aligned to said boundary. > > So I suspect what we really need is to fix up NVMe, and after that > we could even relax the above check, to not check for offset but > offset & queue_virt_boundary(q).
That's what I tried doing the last two days but as we're rather late in the rc cycle and it is a regression that came in with -rc1 I'd rather like to have it fixed or at least have a band aid in place.
Byte, Johannes
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