[PATCH v3 07/15] block: Limit atomic write IO size according to atomic_write_max_sectors

John Garry john.g.garry at oracle.com
Wed Feb 14 01:24:42 PST 2024


On 14/02/2024 07:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:15:08AM +0000, John Garry wrote:
>> I'm note sure if that would be better in the fops.c patch (or not added)
> 
> We'll need the partition check.  If you want to get fancy you could
> also add the atomic boundary offset thing there as a partitions would
> make devices with that "feature" useful again, although I'd prefer to
> only deal with that if the need actually arises.

Yeah, that is my general philosophy about possible weird HW.

> 
> The right place is in the core infrastructure, the bdev patch is just
> a user of the block infrastructure.  bdev really are just another
> file system and a consumer of the block layer APIs.

ok, I'll try to find a good place for it.

Thanks,
John



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