It's pretty much guaranteed a block layer bug, most likely in the merge bios to request infrastucture where we don't obey the merging limits properly. Does either of you have a known good and first known bad kernel? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html