On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 01:36:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 10:58:22PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote: > > I think the important thing is the late splitting for regular bio. > > For discard/write_same bio, how about just don't do late splitting? > > I'd hate having to special case them even more. Especially as the > discard splitting is nasty and we really don't want to send giant > discards by default anyway (see Jens' patches to limit discard size > by default).
Why is it that we don't want to send giant discards? Is it a latency issue? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
