Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:17:43PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Kent Overstreet > > Ideally we'd get upper layers out of the business of knowing about the queue > > limits at all - that was the point of the patch series, after all. > > > > Instead of using UINT_MAX, would it work to just make the max 1 << 31 sectors?' > > 1 << 31 = 2G bytes = 0x400000 sectors. > > Yes, that works as long as it's multiple of granularity. Is granularity required to be a power of two? One would hope, but looking at the code that doesn't appear to be a requirement... ugh, that's terrible...