Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-log-writes: fix bug with too large bios

2016-05-31 Thread James Johnston
Hi Mikulas, > bio_alloc can allocate a bio with at most BIO_MAX_PAGES (256) vector > entries. However, the incoming bio may have more vector entries if it was > allocated by other means. For example, bcache submits bios with more than > BIO_MAX_PAGES entries. This results in bio_alloc failure. >

Re: [dm-devel] bcache gets stuck flushing writeback cache when used in combination with LUKS/dm-crypt and non-default bucket size

2016-05-21 Thread James Johnston
> On Fri, 20 May 2016, James Johnston wrote: > > > > On Mon, 16 May 2016, Tim Small wrote: > > > > > > > On 08/05/16 19:39, James Johnston wrote: > > > > > I've run into a problem where the bcache writeback cache can't be > > > > >

Re: [dm-devel] bcache gets stuck flushing writeback cache when used in combination with LUKS/dm-crypt and non-default bucket size

2016-05-18 Thread James Johnston
> On Sun, 8 May 2016, James Johnston wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > > bcache gets stuck flushing writeback cache when used in combination with > > LUKS/dm-crypt and non-default bucket size > > > > [2.] Fu