On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:24:52PM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> From: Shaohua Li <s...@fb.com>
> 
> Loop can handle any size of request. Limiting it to 255 sectors just
> burns the CPU for bio split and request merge for underlayer disk and
> also cause bad fs block allocation in directio mode.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <s...@fb.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/loop.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index b55a1f8..428da07 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -1799,6 +1799,7 @@ static int loop_add(struct loop_device **l, int i)
>       }
>       lo->lo_queue->queuedata = lo;
>  
> +     blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(lo->lo_queue, BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS);
>       /*
>        * It doesn't make sense to enable merge because the I/O
>        * submitted to backing file is handled page by page.
> -- 
> 2.9.5
> 

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming....@redhat.com>

-- 
Ming

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