On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 09:27:53PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Have you considered to convert all block drivers to the new > approach and to get rid of request.special? If so, do you already > have plans to start working on this? I'm namely wondering wheter I > should start working on this myself. Hi Bart, I'd love to have all drivers move of using .special (and thus reducing request size further). I think the general way to do that is to convert them to blk-mq and not using the legacy cmd_size field. -- 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