Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 10:52:24AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier to move both max_write_same_sectors and > max_discard sectors to 64 bit (ie to type sector_t) and be done with the > overflow? > Seems to me this is far too much coding around self-imposed restrictions... It's bio->bi_iter.bi_size that would have to be increased to 64 bits. Which I suppose wouldn't actually increase the size of struct bio (when sector_t is 64 bits), since struct bvec_iter has padding right now...