David Dillow wrote: > Fix direct IO when doing more than 1 MB IOs -- proper patch to fix is > floating in the ether as well, now landed in Andrew Morton's tree.
So what was the behavior without this patch? also can you send pointer to that tree and mailing list this patch was submitted, I'd like to follow on the discussion there, thanks, Or. > --- a/fs/direct-io.c > +++ b/fs/direct-io.c > @@ -583,6 +583,7 @@ static int dio_new_bio(struct dio *dio, sector_t > start_sector) > goto out; > sector = start_sector << (dio->blkbits - 9); > nr_pages = min(dio->pages_in_io, bio_get_nr_vecs(dio->map_bh.b_bdev)); > + nr_pages = min(nr_pages, BIO_MAX_PAGES); > BUG_ON(nr_pages <= 0); > ret = dio_bio_alloc(dio, dio->map_bh.b_bdev, sector, nr_pages); > dio->boundary = 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
