Martin rightfully noted that for normal filesystem IO we have soft limits in place, to prevent them from getting too big and not lead to unpredictable latencies. For zone append we only have the hardware limit in place. Cap the max sectors we submit via zone-append to the maximal number of sectors if the second limit is lower. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/yq1k0w8g3rw.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index cf80e61b4c5e..967cd76f16d4 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1406,7 +1406,10 @@ static inline unsigned int queue_max_segment_size(const struct request_queue *q) static inline unsigned int queue_max_zone_append_sectors(const struct request_queue *q) { - return q->limits.max_zone_append_sectors; + + struct queue_limits *l = q->limits; + + return min(l->max_zone_append_sectors, l->max_sectors); } static inline unsigned queue_logical_block_size(const struct request_queue *q) -- 2.26.2