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

From: Ming Lin
Date: Wed May 20 2015 - 14:18:05 EST


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I'll drop it and sent it separately.
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