Hi Christoph; Forgive me my newness and not understanding most subtleties, but I don't actually understand why you say "that is a completely bogus assumption" -- could you please elaborate or point me at a document/code/list archive explaining? Thanks in advance! John On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:30 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:56:33PM -0700, Harshad Shirwadkar wrote: > > This feature allows the user to control the alignment at which request > > queue is allowed to split bios. Google CloudSQL's 16k user space > > application expects that direct io writes aligned at 16k boundary in > > the user-space are not split by kernel at non-16k boundaries. > > That is a completely bogus assumptions and people who think they can > make that assumption should not be allowed to write software. > > Can we stop this crap now please? >
