Hello, Kent. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:04:10AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > bcache creates large bios internally, and then splits them according to > the device requirements before it sends them down. If a lower level > device tries to clone the bio, and the original bio had more than > BIO_MAX_PAGES, the clone will fail unecessarily. > > We can fix this by only cloning the bio vecs that are actually in use. I'm pretty sure I sound like a broken record by now, but * How was this tested? * What are the implications and possible dangers? > @@ -463,10 +468,10 @@ void __bio_clone(struct bio *bio, struct bio *bio_src) > bio->bi_sector = bio_src->bi_sector; > bio->bi_bdev = bio_src->bi_bdev; > bio->bi_flags |= 1 << BIO_CLONED; > + bio->bi_flags &= ~(1 << BIO_SEG_VALID); For the n'th time, explain please. Thanks. -- tejun -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
