Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

[Ming Lin]

On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 14:05 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin K Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Martin> I agree except I really don't want to lop off anything unless
> Martin> the device locks up if we send it partial blocks. There was an
> Martin> array that had problems a while back but I believe they have
> Martin> been fixed.
> 
> Oh, and there are several arrays out there that have allocation units
> that are not powers of two. *sigh*

Do you still agree we cap discard to 2G as an interim solution?
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mlin/linux.git/commit/?h=block-generic-req&id=39d2f5f

If OK, I'll send out new version asking Jens to apply.


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