Re: [Patch v9 02/10] block: Generalize chunk_sectors support as boundary support

From: Hannes Reinecke
Date: Thu Jun 20 2024 - 10:14:32 EST


On 6/20/24 14:53, John Garry wrote:
The purpose of the chunk_sectors limit is to ensure that a mergeble request
fits within the boundary of the chunck_sector value.

Such a feature will be useful for other request_queue boundary limits, so
generalize the chunk_sectors merge code.

This idea was proposed by Hannes Reinecke.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
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block/blk-merge.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
drivers/md/dm.c | 2 +-
include/linux/blkdev.h | 13 +++++++------
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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