On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 04:04:25AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I still haven't seen an explanation why this simple thing doesn't work > just as well: > > diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c > index 48e6725b32ee..f3073700166f 100644 > --- a/block/blk-merge.c > +++ b/block/blk-merge.c > @@ -309,6 +309,11 @@ void __blk_queue_split(struct request_queue *q, struct bio **bio, > nr_segs); > break; > default: > + if ((*bio)->bi_vcnt == 1 && > + (*bio)->bi_io_vec[0].bv_len <= PAGE_SIZE) { > + *nr_segs = 1; > + return; > + } > split = blk_bio_segment_split(q, *bio, &q->bio_split, nr_segs); > break; > } This bio(*bio) may be a fast-cloned bio from somewhere(DM, MD, ...), so the above check can't work sometime. thanks, Ming