[PATCH for-4.5 03/13] NVMe: Allow request merges

[Jens Axboe]

On 02/10/2016 02:01 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:37:05AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 02/10/2016 11:36 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> In general it is, but it might be good to try to understand
>>> why this flag was set in the first place, and why the argument
>>> for that isn't true anymore, or never was.
>>
>> IIRC, it was set when the conversion to blk-mq happened, since the
>> original driver could not do merges being bio based.
>
> This actually carried over from when it was still bio-based. The flag
> was set in the driver's initial commit, but should not have been.

Yeah, but the flag was a no-op back then, since no merging is done for 
bio based drivers. So flag or no flag back then, no merging would have 
been done.

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Jens Axboe