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
