Re: support for multi-range discard requests V3

[Sagi Grimberg]

Hi all,

this series adds support for merging discontiguous discard bios into a
single request if the driver supports it.  This reduces the number of
discards sent to the device by about a factor of 5-6 for typical
workloads on NVMe, and for slower devices that use I/O scheduling
the number will probably be even bigger but I've not implemented
that support yet.

Changes since V2:
  - really fix nr of NVMe ranges to 256
  - free range on error

Changes since V1:
  - hardcoded max ranges for NVMe to 255
  - minor cleanups


Oops, reviewed v1 before noticing this one...

support for multi-range discard requests V3

[Christoph Hellwig]

Hi all,

this series adds support for merging discontiguous discard bios into a
single request if the driver supports it.  This reduces the number of
discards sent to the device by about a factor of 5-6 for typical
workloads on NVMe, and for slower devices that use I/O scheduling
the number will probably be even bigger but I've not implemented
that support yet.

Changes since V2:
  - really fix nr of NVMe ranges to 256
  - free range on error

Changes since V1:
  - hardcoded max ranges for NVMe to 255
  - minor cleanups