Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] block: fix blk_queue_split() resource exhaustion

[NeilBrown]

On Tue, Jul 12 2016, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
....
>
> Instead, I suggest to distinguish between recursive calls to
> generic_make_request(), and pushing back the remainder part in
> blk_queue_split(), by pointing current->bio_lists to a
> 	struct recursion_to_iteration_bio_lists {
> 		struct bio_list recursion;
> 		struct bio_list queue;
> 	}
>
> By providing each q->make_request_fn() with an empty "recursion"
> bio_list, then merging any recursively submitted bios to the
> head of the "queue" list, we can make the recursion-to-iteration
> logic in generic_make_request() process deepest level bios first,
> and "sibling" bios of the same level in "natural" order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Kammerer <roland.kammerer@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks again for doing this - I think this is a very significant
improvement and could allow other simplifications.

NeilBrown

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