Re: [PATCH 04/10] bcache: clean up hacks around bio_split_pool

From: Ming Lin
Date: Wed Apr 29 2015 - 01:43:31 EST


On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:48:31PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
>> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> There has been workarounds only in bcache, for splitting pool as well
>> as submitting bios. Since generic_make_request() is able to handle
>> arbitrarily sized bios, it's now possible to delete those hacks.
>
> The Subject and description look confusing to me.
>
> From me reading of the code I'd word it as:
>
> Subject: bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
>
> The bcache driver has always accepted arbitrarily large bios and split
> them internally. Now that every driver must accept arbitrarily large
> bios this code isn't nessecary anymore.

Will update it.
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