Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] block: use chunk_sectors when evaluating stacked atomic write limits

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Thu Jun 19 2025 - 22:41:37 EST



John,

> Furthermore, io_min may be mutated when stacking devices, and this
> makes it a poor candidate to hold the stripe size. Such an example (of
> when io_min may change) would be when the io_min is less than the
> physical block size.

io_min is not allowed to be smaller than the physical_block_size. How
did we end up violating that requirement?

logical_block_size <= physical_block_size <= io_min <= io_opt

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Martin K. Petersen