Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 04:44:57 EST


On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:34:13PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios with more than BIO_MAX_PAGES
> segments. Doing that, it becomes possible to simplify the block layer
> in the kernel.

I can't see why we'd need this patch in the series. This seems to be
from Kents work to allow largers bios and just have slipped in here.
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