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SubjectRe: [PATCH V10 15/19] block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 05:59:36PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:53:02PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Now multi-page bvec can cover CONFIG_THP_SWAP, so we don't need to
> > increase BIO_MAX_PAGES for it.
>
> You mentioned to it in the cover letter, but this needs more explanation
> in the commit message. Why did CONFIG_THP_SWAP require > 256? Why does
> multipage bvecs remove that requirement?

CONFIG_THP_SWAP needs to split one TH page into normal pages and adds
them all to one bio. With multipage-bvec, it just takes one bvec to
hold them all.

thanks,
Ming

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