Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Apr 2016 18:34:11 -0800 | | From | Kent Overstreet <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs |
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:30:22AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Now limit.max_segments is for limiting segments from hw view, one this > segment may include lots of pages/bvecs. > > The current bio_clone() issue is that we can't clone from one bio which > includes more than 256 bvecs, maybe all these 256 bvecs belong to > one same hw segment.
So the distinction is purely a post multipage bvec thing?
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