Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] block: prepare for multipage bvecs

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jun 01 2016 - 10:05:30 EST


On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> So should I not push this type of fix to Linus now? I was going to send
> the above commit and this one to him this week:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.7&id=57b3001b240629ecc5266d28c845e23ca5f11719
>
> Instead, should bcache be made to not do what it is doing?

I think that's much preferably. Otherwise we'll get a constant trickles
of patches like that whenever someone tries bcache on top of another
stacking driver.