Re: [PATCH 5/5] block: support large requests in blk_rq_map_user_iov

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On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 07:34:22PM +0000, Keith Busch wrote:
> This looks good too, though I think patch 2/5 in this series on its
> own should have fixed the transfer issues for NVMe. AFAICT, the only
> reason the iterator couldn't be fully copied into a single bio is if
> blk_add_pc_page already hit a queue limit, and blk_rq_append_bio would
> fail for the same reason.

For requests <= 1MB that's true.  But the firmware dump is using larger
transfers, and unless we can merge enough fragments we're still going
to need multiple bios.
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