On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:53:02PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Now multi-page bvec can cover CONFIG_THP_SWAP, so we don't need to > increase BIO_MAX_PAGES for it.
You mentioned to it in the cover letter, but this needs more explanation in the commit message. Why did CONFIG_THP_SWAP require > 256? Why does multipage bvecs remove that requirement? > Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]> > Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> > Cc: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: David Sterba <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Gao Xiang <[email protected]> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Coly Li <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Boaz Harrosh <[email protected]> > Cc: Bob Peterson <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]> > --- > include/linux/bio.h | 8 -------- > 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h > index 5040e9a2eb09..277921ad42e7 100644 > --- a/include/linux/bio.h > +++ b/include/linux/bio.h > @@ -34,15 +34,7 @@ > #define BIO_BUG_ON > #endif > > -#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP > -#if HPAGE_PMD_NR > 256 > -#define BIO_MAX_PAGES HPAGE_PMD_NR > -#else > #define BIO_MAX_PAGES 256 > -#endif > -#else > -#define BIO_MAX_PAGES 256 > -#endif > > #define bio_prio(bio) (bio)->bi_ioprio > #define bio_set_prio(bio, prio) ((bio)->bi_ioprio = prio) > -- > 2.9.5 >
