On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Mike Snitzer <snit...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22 2015 at 12:59pm -0400,
> Ming Lin <m...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Ming Lin <min...@ssi.samsung.com>
>>
>> In commit b49a087("block: remove split code in
>> blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}"), discard_granularity and alignment
>> checks were removed. Ideally, with bio late splitting, the upper layers
>> shouldn't need to depend on device's limits.
>>
>> Christoph reported a discard regression on the HGST Ultrastar SN100 NVMe
>> device when mkfs.xfs. We have not found the root cause yet.
>>
>> This patch re-adds discard_granularity and alignment checks by reverting
>> the related changes in commit b49a087. The good thing is now we can
>> remove the 2G discard size cap and just use UINT_MAX to avoid bi_size
>> overflow.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
>> Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <min...@ssi.samsung.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snit...@redhat.com>Hi Jens, Would you please take this one? > > Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
