Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v4 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

2015-05-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:40:22AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > It does sometimes make a significant difference to device-mapper stacks. > DM only uses it for performance reasons - it can already split bios when > it needs to. I tried to remove merge_bvec_fn from DM several years ago but > co

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v4 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

2015-05-26 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:06:40AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > Because we don't know what the "right" size is. And the "right" size can > change when array reconfiguration happens. In certain configurations today, device-mapper does report back a sensible maximum bio size smaller than would other